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Friday, 11 February 2011

2/16/2011

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Friday: We have no rhythm yet - it's like having new shoes, or new teeth...it pinches and irritates, but it is not necessarily bad ... We learn from every experience: this last night was decidedly the coldest yet! What did we learn? It is not pleasant, nor fun, nor anything to camp CAMP when it is below zero. I look with new eyes at Mount Everest conquerors...why on earth would you want to expose yourself to that?  I think we handled it well under the 'circumcoldces'.We We find a very empty, but official camp site where we pitched camp a 100m from the ocean.

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We went for a walk along the beach front, checked out all the little fish '"Mc'Donalds" (not really - they all sell the same thing with a here and there difference in Turkish Lire) and finally settled on a $15 menu for all 4 of us!
From a street stall, Andrej and Hugo bought us homemade smoked sausages  for dinner- according them it is camel meat...I did not want to think too much about the origins of the sausage!
Sammie explored the campsite, Hugo and Andrej made a friendly fire, I had a cold, but wonderful shower and Willie took beautiful pictures.
The boys pitched their tent for the first time - a wonderful day and evening with temperatures we could reason with.
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    "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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