The best things in life aren’t things.

Hey everyone,
I’m back in Windhoek after an unbelievable trip through the south of Namibia. I rented a car with some friends, and we stocked up for a five day camping trip. We first stopped in the Namib desert, the oldest desert in the world! We arrived just in time to climb a dune for sunset. It was a very surreal landscape, one of the most beautiful places i’ve ever seen. We spend the next day in the national park, that includes this huge salt pans that lie surrounded by giant red sand dunes. I must have taken 500 pictures, and sweat 10 litres. We climbed the highest sand dune in the world, called big daddy, which had an unbelievable view of the sea of red dunes from the top.
From the Namib, we made our way south. One of the best things about namibia is the open space. At night we would just pull off the road, cook over a fire, and camp out in the middle of nowhere. Each night, i didn’t see a single car pass from when we had set up, to when we left again in the morning!
I got to drive through the wickedest winding dirt road through the hilly area around the fish river. We had an exciting desert experience, when our car got stuck in the sand of a dried up river bed. It took us about an hour, with some expert engineering to jack up the car a couple times, using rocks to level out the car in the deep sand. Digging and pushing the car in the desert sun thankfully only lasted an hour and a half, or we might have ended up as human jerky. We spent the last couple nights around the spectacular fish river canyon, the second biggest in the world, and brought our gas cooker out at about 6am., and sat on the edge of the canyon with a cup of coffee watching the sunrise. Overall a pretty amazing time.
I’ve got a couple days of downtime here in Windhoek, while I plan my trip up north, near the Caprivi strip along the Angolan border, then accross to the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Today I finally delt with my visa problem getting back into South Africa, so I’m set to fly home in 2 weeks. I can hardly believe the trips almost up.

Pictures later this afternoon when I can figure out this slime sucking scumbag computer