Sundowners & Goodbyes

The two weeks here have flown by and six of the eight volunteers are about to leave us (Alice and me) and fly home.   Our last game drive ends with sundowners by Oryx Dam.  We have packed our drink of choice and a few snacks for our last evening together and we have a blast. We toasts to the last 2 weeks in each of our mother tongues and drink to new friendships and wild cats.  It has been an awesome two weeks and this is a fitting end.  Rion teaches us some African dance moves and we dance on the dry caked mud of the river bed as the sunsets over Namibia. I have got to know these girls to varying degrees but Katrina and I have formed a close friendship and we hope to meet again either in Australia or Africa.  She is my first Irish girl friend!  She lives in England currently, but plans to move back to Ireland soon to work there for awhile so she can save up to travel the world.  Perhaps, her travels will bring her Down Under or we will catch up somewhere else.  Till then, I say au revoir, safe travels everyone!  Till we meet again….

“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions”.