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.
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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