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Well a little more on Africa. It is very cold at night. I had this misconception that Africa is hot. Well I went in their winter and some days it is hot during the day and others, not so hot. In the evening it gets mighty cold. One evening it went down to -7 degrees. I was freezing. I lay in my sleeping bag with three pairs of pants, two pairs of socks (should have been three), two t-shirts, three sweaters, a light coat, my sarong as a scarf, toque and mitts. Luckily Christine in Hong Kong gave me her toque and mitts to borrow. Thanks again. Man it was cold at night. I wore them each night. I lay in my sleeping bag hoping to god it would hurry up and be six am. That was the time we were to leave that sight. They knew it was a cold location (a guy the week before got hypothermia) so we were to get up and take down the tents in the morning and get on the road. Usually we have breakfast, but it was too cold and we were going to stop around 9am to have breakfast. It was still freezing at 9am and we became hobos. We lit a garbage can on fire for warmth at our roadside breakfast stop. It was interesting. They did not check to see what was in the can, so there were little explosion going on and off. Then the can actually caught fire on the outside. It turned out to be burning the paint off the outside of the barrel. Needless to say the next town we hit I bought think socks and a wool blanket. These items made the evenings much more enjoyable.

We had some trouble with our truck or trucks. We ended up breaking down six times and having to switch trucks four times in the last few days. It was a big job to unload every single item off of the truck, but we hoped the next truck would be better. We just kept getting teased as the trucks were just borrowed from another group for a day or so and then we would have to carry on with our sh*t one.

We spent the night in the dessert. It was interesting. We broke down at 11 am. We entertained ourselves by playing dessert Olympics. We had the discus, javelin, shot-put and hurdle events. Then we played musical chairs, pass the toilet paper and finally we put a guy on the roof of the truck and made him be the hoop while we took shots at him, dessert basketball.

I went to the sand dunes and went sand boarding in Namibia. I climbed the 100m dune with my piece of wood (my sled) and slid down the dune head first at 76 km/h. They had a radar gun and I was the fastest person to go down. For each step we took up the dune, we slid two steps back. By the time I would reach the top I would have to empty a cup of sand out of each running shoe. We were to wear covered shoes as our feet were our brakes.

We visited a township on the last day and saw how the poor live in Africa. It was interesting. You are either very rich or very poor in Africa. It was interesting. We saw a dorm room for migrant workers. In each room a minimum of two families live in an 8’ x 10’ dirty room. In the township there were dorm rooms, shacks made of left over lumber and steel or proper houses.

I went to Victoria Falls, a waterfall that is 1.7 km wide. The falls are one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was spectacular. I flew over it in a micro light airplane. The micro light looked like a large kite. The falls are in both Zambia and Zimbabwe. So when I was flying I flew through Zimbabwe.
The animals and scenery were absolutely spectacular in Africa. There is some much to offer there. I feel like this was the animal tour, but I know there is so much more culturally to offer, so I will have to go back.

Check out the following links for African pictures. I separated them into four albums in the hopes it would be quicker for you to up load them. Also included are my Ireland pictures and a couple videos.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahemoloney/Africa1Album

http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahemoloney/Africa2Album

http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahemoloney/Africa3Album

http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahemoloney/Africa4Album

http://picasaweb.google.com/sarahemoloney/IrelandAndMyWelcomeHome

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6874432063335198577

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2108636978677755654