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Zimbabwe to USA and Adventure Reflections
We are up about 6AM to shower and pack and then to breakfast. There is a wonderful buffet with pancakes made on a hot grill with maple syrup and whipped cream! Also there is a bloody mary station and John makes us one as we linger over the view and spend time reviewing our trip with Thompson and others.
We take a group picture in front of the hotel and head for the airport by bus. Thompson has warned us that there are three big flights leaving from the ...
Wks 67 & 68 - Northern Drakensberg to Joburg
... two dramatic juts in the smooth ridge. After some lunch we made our way back down to the park entrance via some fear provoking metal step ladders that run parallel to the vertical drop of the cliff face! Intense! Once back at the hostel it was time to relax with a glass of winter warming red wine and an early night in prep of the next days horse ride - yey!!!
My horse was a little chestnut called Caiman - which is a particularly vicious type of alligator - I should ...
Back to Jo'Berg
... in South Africa, drinking (Korean) Bubble Tea in China Town. Passed my old friend who called me his sister last week, who again called me his sister and told me that Jesus loved me and scored two pears for his trouble. Then hit some markets, I do like markets. My, I could spend some money here, if I had plenty of space and Australia allowed wood.
Hung out briefly with some ...
Satisfactory is our only concern.
... people walking every which way, selling everything, buying anything, eating loads. I felt anxious, but not unsafe. I felt the same way I felt when I first took the bus from Columbia Road in east London to Tottenham Court Road. Uncertain of where I was headed, anxious about missing my stop (they didn't use to display each stop, nor did they announce them outside of rush hour!) and concerned that if I got off at the wrong stop I would have to either pay ...
Panorama Route in the clouds
... you could feel in the air that we were on a higher altitude, it was quite cold so the fleece had to come out of the backpack. We then conitnued on the Panorama Route, but unfortunately the weather was not on our side. The wievpoint at Godīs Window was up in the cloudds and me could see absolutely nothing. Further on the weather got better and when we made our next stop at Bourkes luck potholes you could again see ...
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