| Jan. 3rd, 2005 @ 06:19 pm the BIG one |
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OHHHHHHH here we go. It has been a week since my last confession and in that week i went on an amazing holiday road trip with my family and a personal tour guide, Leigh, who is a friend of the family too. Here is a break down...its long...i suggest heavy skimming is in order, but if you want to be distracted,....go ahead, read the whole friggin' thing....but don't say i didn't warn you!!!!
DAY ONE: well monday. We got up and drove from Windhoek to Walvus Bay through the desert. The scenery was amazing!! And we even hit a dust storm. It was a 4 hr drive. It was hot and we had to stop for "geology 1-0-1" lessons from my dad. But i am used to it now. When we got to Walvus, we went to meet leigh. Her whole family is friends with mine so we were staying there for 2 nights. We had a brie (BR-eye...a massive bbq). Seriously all they eat here is meat. There were 10-15ppl there and there were 2 small salads and the rest was meat on the brie. we ate beef, pork, kudu, boorr-something..and other game. SO GOOD! Before that, we went out to the salt factory look out cabin thing. Its really cool how thy extract salt from the ocean!!! Anyways we went out there to see the pink seas (mass amount of wild flamingos) and to get fresh oysters. A bunch of the pple ate them freh there adn then we took some back to cook before the brie. Good times...my parents we sloshed with everyone else....all i got was a shot...but it was a goodie! I slept in Ryans bed....he has Mr. T puffy stickers on his door....hehehe
DAY TWO: we got up and went sandbording in Swakopmund. Its bascially crazy carpeting on sand, or snowboarding. We did the lay down head first, off huge dune...they are super steep trust me!!!. Man it was intense!!!! On hardboard they send you down..we got up to 80km/hr going down!!!! and you get air and stuff..,.oh the pictures! Well the sucky thing is that it was 4hrs longer than we expected and we ALL got burnt to a crisp....with funny tans cuz we were wearing all this safety gear! Then we went quadbiking, or 4 wheeling, or ATV'ing, whatever you call it in the desert too. We went for an hour...it was amazing. I had never driven one before so that was shifty,..kinda tipy...but i managed. good pics too!!! We then drove back to Walvus and had another big brie....with lots of meat...
DAY THREE: we got up, early agian...shocker! We drove a looooonnnnnnggggg time to Twyflefontien. We saw a couple sights on the way like the Organ Pipes, burnt mountain, and more bleak hot desert. We stopped in a little down...super shifty, for lucnh, but it was good., we all had toaties anyways. Twyfle resort place was really nice...and they had a pool!!! We just hung out at the bar,, then the pool....bar....restaurant...bar....
DAY FOUR: We drove out of the lodge and went to see rock paintings...well they were carved into the rock....it was a 30 min walk. It was really good and I really liked all the animals! A good saunter in the bush. We then drove forever again in heat to Etosha. We stoped and saw the Fingerklip rock (geo father) and a petrified forest (geo father) and we stopped in Outjo for lunch. It was good,...shifty again. But hey everyhwere is shifty. We got to Etosha, which is a big game reserve park place that is huge! We had to drive accross it to reach our lodge that was right outside the gates called Mokuti Lodge. We drove through and saw giraffe, sprinkbok, wildebeast, lion, zebra, jackals etc. We got super close to a male elephant and he started to charg us. Leigh was scared....it was interesting.....hehehe It was really cool! They are soooo close. Mokuti was super nice....we had a cool mosuito net!!! and a good restaurant. and pool.. We just chilled the rest of the night and had a family dinner and then i went ot hte bar with mum and leigh for a while. There were really rude kids there...but thats another story! the bartender was awesome though,,,alll smiles.
DAY FIVE: We got up super early, for 6am. had a breakfast wuickly and went into etosha. We had all run out of film and the digital's battery died,...so no cameras....sucky day. we saw lots of animals that day. Aweome heard of elephants with a newborn...and a crazy teenage male who was chasing brids and stuff. Worthogs---a limping one---, lots of Oryx, springbok, zebra, lions, dik dik- and baby dik dik, baby of lots of other stuff....lots lot lots of giraffe, really close, hyenas (sp), jackles, heartebeast, wildebeast, lots of birds, kudu...etc. etc. We retired in Mokuti for a swim. We went back and forth 2 times...we took a break for lunch... It was new years eve and i was beat. We had a good family dinner and my parents got sloshed. I had a couple drinks, but maintained composure for obvious reasons, and crashed right after new years,,,,whtaever.
DAY SIX: we got up early AGAIN and drove to Roys camp. Our next accomodation...they only safe place. We passed through Tsumeb...a super dogdy place...very unsafe. and thru grootsfontein and then out to roys camp.....very rustic. Basically camping with running water. We all got rashes from the bed bugs in the matress and the bugs,,,,ugh....but it was cool. Oh and the cook took off "unexpectedly" for the holidays so the restaurant was closed and we had no food...and no store.....the lady took pity on us and fed us toasties, and then sorted our a brie pack...it was good. We just lounged the rest of the day by the pool and stuff.
DAY SEVEN: we went to the bushman camp. it was really cool. they show you all the traditional ways they make jewerly and tools and stuff. I really liked it...it was ver personal....adn we bought a whole bunch of real stuff from them too which was amazing. They were really friendly and stuff. We went back after and just hung out. Played cranium...met a really weird guy in the pool....had a kudu for dinner....just chilled.
DAY EIGHT: we got up early again and drove through tsumeb down to the cheetach conservation place. Tsuneb we stopped in to get cameras. It was scary....and there was a take out place called "mary save us" next to a gun and ammunition store. this was a windows up doors locked place...we even had to guys circle the landy....oh mannnn!!!!!! The cheetah place was cool. I have seen cheetahs before, but it was still A+++. we then we on our way to Windhoek...back home. We were supposed to go to the big craft market but it was HC raining there...which was werid, but whatever. Passed a town called OMOROSA....ugh...and the mountains that in heraro translate at the "tits" two peaks side by side....and into Windhoek. We dropped off leigh went home and showered. Ahhhh. Then Ryan flew in so we all went out for dinner. ryan is leugh's brother. I haven't seen him since grd 8. He ragged on me about boys...oh man. We all went to Joes Beer House. and then back home.
okay i am finally tired.... and done peeing...i have been drinking sundowners....what can i say....my fathers influnece.
Well thats the basic run down, and trust me there are sooooo many more stories!!!!!
Well miss you all see you in a weekish
Love Johnny |
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