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April 17 I was up at 06:42 to get ready, made my goodbyes to Lala and Francois Loubser, and was on the highway by 08:30 to try to thumb a ride to Sossusvlei…about a six hour drive away. I have had a very easy time hitchhiking around Africa. Namibia has decided to take a different pattern and it was not kind in supplying rides. I stood on the side of the road in the same place for three hours. I...
April 16 The ‘Walvis’ of Walvis Bay is ‘whale’ in Afrikaans. Awesome… I went for a walk around Walvis Bay in an attempt to try to find a tent. I failed in the tent quest, but really came out ahead because I stopped at a business called Namib Off-Road, that was closed. There was a sign on the door that explained their closure was due to a 4×4 Desert Challenge behind Dune 7. I asked a cabbie where Dune 7...
April 14 I woke up in the car in a gas station, though I am not really sure where it was when I started off for Walvis Bay this morning. I think a sign said that I was 56 kilometers from Swakopmund when I hit the road while it was still dark. My third sleep in a car in three nights. I do not live a comfortable life, but it sure is interesting. A cool thing about Namibia…they put up...
April 11 When I woke up, breakfast had been prepared for Julia and I on the terrace outside of the rooms by Lala, who runs Loubser’s Bed and Breakfast. Awesome! Julia and I ate and then I kissed her goodbye before she raced off to catch a flight to Bali. I started getting myself ready when my rental car arrived. Yes! Now, I had been to Avis, and they had a car for me for 552 Namibian dollars ($37) per...
April 10 Lala woke me up at 08:00 because she had prepared breakfast for me. Julia, right behind her, had a nice morning shine and sat with me for breakfast. Today would turn out to be Opposite Day! Awesome Opposite Day. Play this while you read. I heard this today. It has been years since I heard this song. Somehow I forgot how great the Bellamy Brothers were. This is a beautiful song… Well, today went down like this… I...
April 9 It has been nice to be a little bit lazy. I feel super comfortable at Loubser’s Bed and Breakfast. I have my own room, Lala the older woman running the place acts as my mother and her husband Francois gives me fatherly advice. They are very sweet and it feels like I am a part of the family here. I do not really want to go. Today Lala found me a car to rent from one of her...
April 8 Brushing your teeth with cologne is terrible. I seem to experience this about once every 10 days. My toothbrush and my cologne are both in my shaving kit (among other things of the sort). I am not sure how it happens really. All I know is that it does happen… and seemingly often. Somehow in my shaving kit, a sift of cologne comes of out the spray nozzle of the bottle and ends up on my toothbrush. Unbeknownst...
April 7 I was up before my friends and I wanted to write my blog in the morning, but by the time I got out of the shower, Tosh and James were away and outside of the tent. Tosh was smoking. He told me, “I try to quit every morning!” This morning seems to have been another failure. Tosh and James told me they had second thoughts about travelling all over Namibia with me. Money is a bigger factor than...
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