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4 June, Friday

6/10/2011

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3 June, Friday  Bush Camp before Wildlife Park     
 
Our aim is Dar es Salaam, but we plan to stop at the Baobab
  Valley on our way down. It is interesting how a restlessness has crept in the
  closer to home we get: a feeling of wanting to reach the end…Hugo cannot wait
  to share his birth country and –town as well as South Africa with Andrej;
  Andrej cannot wait to see it after hearing about it for the last 4 years;
  Willie and I are excited about going back to a place and its people that we’ve
  grown to love immensely, BUT…

 We’ve decided to help and remind one another to stay in the
  present: enjoy the richness of life everyday – new places, people, food,
  sights, difficulties, tiredness, long roads, short roads, potholes, tar or
  carpeted (as they say here) and so much more. We’ve also realized that the
  answer to help curb the travel fatigue is to cut down on distances; shorter
  travel days and longer periods of rest. It definitely helps to energize and
  replenish us and it also allows for processing time. We are so full of newness
  boiling over and processing helps to prevent spilling and
forgetting.

 We want to sleep in a camp at the gate of a National Wildlife
Park. The signs are there, but the campsite is deserted and it really looks
creepy, so we decide we will rather bush camp. Willie pushes the car deep into
the bush and we hope we will be out of sight. Hugo helps me with dinner
  preparation whilst Andrej and Willie play back gammon. Andrej remains the
  undefeated champion. No one has discovered us yet, and all 4 of us crawl into
  our tents with a little apprehension. We hope we will sleep well. 
 
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    Caren

    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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