Adrenaline junky gone wild!

So I've made it to South Africa, barely! lol I have fiunished my tour with the group. On our trip through Namibia we had some amazing highlights. After climbing all over the enormous mountains of rocks in Spitkoppe we slept in a cave with a view of the stars all night long. Somewhere along the line we went to The Cheetah Farm. This is a place that protects wild cheetahs and has three tamed ones that were born there. I got to pet them and watch from the truck bed  as the wild ones were being fed. An absolutely amazing experience and I wanted it to last all day!

In Swakopmund I went sandboarding on the dunes. The stand up boarding was actually really hard and not that enjoyable but the lie down was fantastic and i got up to 76km/hr!!!  The last run of the day however I went a bit crazy. I went over the jump and was cruising down the dune but when I went to stop I caught some sand and went flying resulting in a fractured left wrist. I didn't actually get to the hospital until the next day but i'm glad I went! Apparently it is the same hospital that Angelina Jolie gave birth in. Anyway I haven't let a cast or the fact that I can only use one arm get in my way.

Once we got to Cape Town a few of us were staying on so we rented two cars and drove around cape point. It was fun to do a mini road trip before everyone parted ways. Due to the one arm issue I decided to go with the baz bus option for the rest of my time in sa. I will be traveling the garden route and then up to Joburg were I fly home. Some of the attractions along the way are riding an ostrich, the highest bungy in the world and a canopy swing!! I may not be able to tie my shoes or pack my bag without help but I am still going to have fun!!! See you all in two weeks!!!!

Botswana

I had a great time in Vic Falls, again! I went white water rafting on the Zambezi River!!!! It was so much fun I can't wait to go back when the whole river is open and do it again. It was sad to say goodbye, again, to the friends that I made there but I will keep in touch or just have to come back to visit, lol. I have started my new overland truck trip and so far so good. My new tent mate is from London and a ball of crazy energy, she and I have a lot of fun together. :) We have spent the last three days in the Okovango Delta. It is fantastically beautiful there but the trip itself was a bit of a let down....our guide was kinda lazy and we suffered for it. Oh well better luck next time. We also did a morning game drive in Chobe National Park which was fantastic as we saw lots of hippos and a leopard kill! To top off that day we took a nature watching sunset cruise. Talk about animal overload. We are headed to namibia tomorrow which I am very excited about but sad to have only spent a week in Botswana, I need so much more time. It has been fucking cold here!!!! (sorry for the language) By cold I mean I had to buy a blanket to put inside my 32 degree sleeping bag while wearing my hat, long sleeve shirt, a shirt, pants and warm socks!!!! I deffinately didn't think that winter in Africa was this cold but hey I keep on learning new things. Well thats it for now, short update. I will hopefully be getting a Namibian number either tomorrow at the border or in the next day or so for those of you who call. Hope all is well at home. Oh yeah one of my roomies is moving to Oregon for a new job...not sure what that means for the living situation. Changes, changes, changes. Good thing I've gotten used to being flexible. LOL