In no particular order:
- Driving 9000 km around southern Africa with no guide
- Getting used to not writing my PhD thesis
- Eating dinner under the southern night sky inside an old fort in Namibia
- The cleanest gas station bathrooms in the world (Namibia, how do you do it?)
- The way ice cream tastes in the desert
- Having it all come together despite the case of the disappearing travel agent
- Exceptionally friendly people
- Being mostly unplugged
- Having B's lost credit card returned by Minen Hotel employee who tracked us down after we left town
- Getting really, really sandy
- Everything about the desert
- And...
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| Being self-sufficient in our safari truck |
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| The way the desert goes on forever, just like the ocean |
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| Flamingos migrating through Etosha Park and turning the horizon pink |
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| Quiver trees! |
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| Baby elephants that run full out, stumble and fall, get up and do it all over again |
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| Giraffes awkwardly crouching down to drink |
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| Three of my favourite things together: gin and tonic + hotel lounge + Africa (and there were monkeys, too!) |
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| Mongoose! |
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| Running in sand dunes |
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| Huge skies |
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| Long roads to nowhere |
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| Watching antelope run |
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| Not getting stuck on the isolated deep sand road in Savuti |
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| Not getting bitten by anything larger than a mosquito |
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| Not getting very stuck in the deep sand in Sossusvlei |
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| Digging out the truck of Germans who got stuck in the deep sand in Sossusvlei. . . in my skirt |
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| Improbably large birds |
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| Seeing a group of very rare wild dogs |
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| Realizing that "mist" at Victoria Falls is a euphemism for torrential downpour |
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| Only getting ripped off once (by the money changer/tout/fake insurance agent at the Zambia border) |
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| Realizing we live in an easier place than the ghost town Kolmanskop |
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| Knee deep ponds along the roads in Moremi |
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| Getting help from the army and the park rangers to reattach the front end onto the truck after the said knee-deep ponds |
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| Weaver birds |
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| Random children changing our flat tire |
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| Finding a hippo in the flooded part of the road that we were about to drive through |
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| Being behind the safari truck that was confronting a grumpy bull elephant |
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| Sitting on the spare tire on top of the truck in the dunes |
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| Camping with warthogs in Kasane |
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| Walking on the crest of sand dunes to find nothing but more sand dunes |
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| Finding a very large and creepy spider spinning its web on the pillow in the back seat |
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| Running on the dunes |
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| Baobabs! |
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| Etosha pan, which goes on forever |
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| Zebras! Real ones! |
- Oh, and did I mention that I really, really like the desert?
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