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Crossing into Angola via dugout!

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 17, 2008 - 17:28
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Hi all! I am just back from another adventure through Botswana, Namibia and Angola

Saw plenty of wildlife, just about everything except lions, hippos and rhinos!

Comments

Hey David

Submitted by Semisweet on July 18, 2008 - 22:43.

Welcome back. Awesome pictures and looks like a cool trip.

I love the elephants as well.

David

Submitted by FranklyWrankles on July 18, 2008 - 10:52.

Hey I would like to write to you about something. Can I have your email address? Thanks!

Anytime Frankly

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 18, 2008 - 10:54.

My e-mail is crezele777@iburst.co.za

David

Submitted by dex on July 18, 2008 - 09:17.

Lots of nature there. Is it my imagination or are you like half the man you used to be?

Halfman, Dex?

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 18, 2008 - 10:50.

At 50, I am less than half the man, given that I will probably have less than 40 years left...
At 50 I am quite happy that I am not stuck in an office behind a laptop and that I can run around in the bush pretending to be crocodile dundee!
At 50 I am fortunate to live in Africa, and to enjoy the incredible hospitality of the people of this continent!
At 50 I am blessed to live in Africa, where we still have some wildlife left at least!
At 50 I enjoy sticking my pinky in the eye of big mining corporations who are intend in screwing up our wonderful continent.
At 50 I am looking forward to the crash of 'industrial civilization' and a return to hunter gatherer society... can someone recommend a good survival course for my kids so that they may adapt to new cirumstances... (this crash is inevitable - the negation of the negation in dialectical terms, unless we are prepared to accept a far more egalitarian system based on a social sharing of resources rather than on greed and self interest).
Perhaps I should have poled that dugout across the Okavango River myself - pole and dugout - quite Freudian those images... but at 50 the pole is no longer as sturdy as it used to be!

Thats cool, David

Submitted by dex on July 18, 2008 - 11:21.

but what i meant was that it seems you have lost a lot of weight! Or maybe I'm confused.

Cool Dex

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 18, 2008 - 11:40.

"Pula", let it be cool, let it rain... No offense taken, maybe I was just looking for an excuse to go on about dugouts and poles. On he downside of fifty comes the problem of being unable to enjoy the same amount of alcohol and food as you used to at 25, perhaps that explains a bit of weight loss! My doctor would consider such a weight loss a good for my future health. I am tall, 6,3 and bony, not too skinny, but I hav never had a problem with weight.

Ah okay DvW

Submitted by dex on July 18, 2008 - 11:43.

I'm probably thinking of someone else then.

David

Submitted by nossie on July 18, 2008 - 10:51.

At 50, I feel and look better than I did at 30.
At 50, not much fazes me.
At 50, I’ve learned it’s lekka to laugh at myself.
At 50, I know who my true friends are.
At 50, I have more hopes, dreams and plans than I did at 30.
At 50, I’ve learned that a sense of humor is vital.
At 50, I’m confidant that I’ve done an excellent job in raising my kids.
At 50, I DO have some regrets but I don’t dwell on them.
At 50, sex is better than it was at 30.
At 50, I don’t need rose colored glasses.

Mmmmm...got to work on making those Freudian images a reality, David!!
Looks like one hell of a trip!!

Yes Nossie, you go girl!

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 18, 2008 - 10:57.

I agree with most of what you say, and can add a few more!

David.

Submitted by Ramon on July 18, 2008 - 08:39.

Good to have you back, man. Those Elephants are beautiful.

David

Submitted by Tarnished Lily on July 18, 2008 - 08:37.

Hope you're going to write a bit about the trip. I'm sure you have anecdotes to tell.

hey David.

Submitted by marijayn on July 17, 2008 - 17:45.

welcome back!
cool way to cross a border.

Thanks MJ

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 17, 2008 - 17:47.

Lots of stories to tell. I felt a bit like David Livingstone. Didn't carry a bible though! Only a laptop. How times have changed!

David

Submitted by marijayn on July 17, 2008 - 17:56.

tell all...
yes well a laptop certainly much more useful from a multi-media perspective...

Laptops

Submitted by Davidvanwyk on July 17, 2008 - 18:06.

I am sure David Livingstone would have loved to have had a multimedia version of the good book with which to bedazzle and befuddle the 'natives'. Thank God he only had the bible!

With MicroSoft...

Submitted by Micatyro on July 18, 2008 - 21:46.

...on that laptop the Dark Continent may well have remained righteously dark!