Posted: Wed Aug. 03, 2011 7:02 am
Trip was perfect, could not have been smoother. Weather was perfect, low 40's in the morning, 70's in the afternoon, dry with 18% humidity. The first 2-advertisement I saw in the S.A. airport were for mountain bikes, but the mountain biking I witnesses was less than appealing when you have to be able to out peddle a cheetah.
The accommodations were 5-star and the food was first rate. I ate everything from eland cord-on-bleu to zebra to gemsbok aus-a-o-buko.
For two weeks I did nothing but get up have breakfast, jump on the back of a land cruiser, hike about the Namibian bush, eat lunch back at the lodge in the "heat" of the day, go out for an afternoon hunt until sundown, head back to the bar until dinner, then up to my room to download footage until 11PM. For two weeks I didn't make a bed, clean a thing, make my meals, look after kids, take care of animals, and fix something that broke at home, worry about work. I was free of many of the tethers of life for a time and it was wonderfully enlightening.
Namibia is an easy country to get around in, traffic laws, language, social norms are easily to adapt to and the wildlife is out of this world. The only thing I have to relate it to is swimming in the Caribbean with schools of fish flowing in front of your mask. The quantity and variety of species is mind blowing. I'd write more but need to get on the road to Texas.
Have a good ride tonight, a few branches down, but besides that the trails are awsome.
Alone in the woods, who stands to be King?
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