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Kruger – The North

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

We entered the Punda Maria gate before 9am. After a smooth entry through the park service personnel we were in. We were instantly rewarded with warthog running down the middle of the road! A few minutes later we had zebra. Impala were everywhere. Wow.

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Time to Move On

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Our Opel Zafira mini-van was delivered on time this morning, although the paperwork and rental details were grossly out of order. Renting cars can be a real challenge when you don’t know the type of car you will end up with. The agents start spewing out car name after car name as they take you through the different classes, all names and styles we have no clue about. What is a Toyota Condor? An Opel Zafira? Will that work? Who knows?!?!? In the end the one we chose worked out fine. We dropped the back two seats (three rows) and loaded one side with our backpacks and the other side with $300 worth of groceries, all requiring no refrigeration, for a week of meals.

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Some Down Time

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
As we mentioned a few days ago, we decided to move to a new backpacker since the last one was a little run down, dirty, dark and cold. What do you expect for very little money? Once we ... [Continue reading this entry]

Soweto and Townships

Saturday, August 20th, 2005
Today we awoke with the great anticipation of taking a trip to Soweto. We hired our own tour guide, instead of going with a big group. Since we have our own agenda regarding photography and education for ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cheetahs and Wild Dogs

Saturday, August 20th, 2005
OK. It has been more than two weeks since we posted. We had problems with the weblog as some of you know from logging in about ten days or so ago and seeing an error message. After ... [Continue reading this entry]

Change of Plans

Monday, August 1st, 2005
Well it won't be the last time we change some plans. We arrived in Namibia relatively on time. (Amazing). The flight on Air Namibia from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to Windhoek, Namibia was on a smaller twin turbo prop. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Africa at Last & Lots of It

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Yes. We are here. But here is not where we thought. We are in Africa but not in Zambia or even Zimbabwe. We are in South Africa, in J'burg. We had a great flight down ... [Continue reading this entry]