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Leaving Tuesday. 6 days tracking desert elephants, two days at the Cheetah Conservation Center, a short speech at some travel conference, and a few days at Etosha Nat. Park, where you can track rhino on foot (looks like with an armed guard).

I regret that I probably will not be able to post here until Nov. 7. My life will be barren.

seeahill wrote:Leaving Tuesday. 6 days tracking desert elephants, two days at the Cheetah Conservation Center, a short speech at some travel conference, and a few days at Etosha Nat. Park, where you can track rhino on foot (looks like with an armed guard).

I regret that I probably will not be able to post here until Nov. 7. My life will be barren.

When you do trips like this, are you paying for the whole thing? Part of it? None? Or are you getting paid?

What a fucking gig you have. have fun

Safe travels. I hope it's not brushfire season there.

Everything is paid for by these guys:
http://www.adventuretravel.biz/connect/summit/
Flights were economy but I used points to bump them up to biz class. Everything else is paid for, but I do have to give a half hour speech.
I stayed 5 extra days so I could go to Etosha and that will cost me $600.
Etosha

Two of my personal training clients just got back from hunting there.

It also has one of the best waves on the planet:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnoBfUYy04[/youtube]

Enjoy your trip!

Is that the place from Endless Summer?

Bram wrote:Two of my personal training clients just got back from hunting there.

It also has one of the best waves on the planet:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnoBfUYy04[/youtube]

Enjoy your trip!

I can do an excellent Seeahill impression ("harrumph, harrumph...cabins...fire...") if you get more than one offer for the same dates.

I teach them how not to make a whole bunch of money travel writing, just like I do.

White Namibians are total cunts. You'll fit in well there.

Video from Namibia/Angola:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmzO_S8zuJg[/youtube]

Did you READ the State Departments travel bulletins?

tough old man wrote:Did you READ the State Departments travel bulletins?

Sure. No alerts for Namibia. Besides, I've been there before and found it's a pretty together place. And the white Namibians I met were just friendly and proud of their country. Like to show you around.

Just don't get AIDS.

baffled wrote:Just don't get AIDS.

Why?

baffled wrote:Just don't get AIDS.

Does having AIDs suck, Baffled?

tough old man wrote:Did you READ the State Departments travel bulletins?

Have they put out anything other than "Do not, under any circumstances, leave the confines of the United States. Better yet, don't leave your house. That's right, you, fatass, go back, grab the biggest soda you can fit in your tubby hands and sit on the sofa and find something nice to watch on TV. It's a dangerous world out there." in the past thirty years or so?

At least read this
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7lpY ... G-C-1.html

AIDS!

Namibia has got one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world, with estimation that one in three black Namibians have the virus today. Hence use prevention; else you probably play Russian roulette with a fully loaded

Surely you can't mean that one could gets AIDs in Africa? That's a real mind snapper, TOM.

IIRC only Haiti is worse. Just want you safe and healthy for the next visit. Take some surgical gloves and keep them with you. If there is an accident and you need to help you'll have them.

tough old man wrote:IIRC only Haiti is worse. Just want you safe and healthy for the next visit. Take some surgical gloves and keep them with you. If there is an accident and you need to help you'll have them.

I remember heading off base in Djibouti, and we came on some guy laying on the road surrounded by a bunch of fellow Djiboutians. He'd been hit by a car, and was bleeding and generally not looking too good. I mentioned that maybe someone ought to do something to help him, like control his neck, plug that leak, check him for secondaries. We all looked at each other and thought, "I'm not touching that...nooooo way."

The Djiboutian "ambulance" pulled up, and two guys got out and grabbed the patient by the hands and feet and gently lofted him up into the bed of their red pickup truck. Last heard or seen.

Read that the north might have unexploded ordinance from the South African/Cuban exchanges. Step lightly, Tim.

Might want to check out Shark Island while you're there. After the Philippine Occupation and Anglo-Boer war it was one of first genocides of the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Isla ... ation_Camp

Gorbachev wrote:

baffled wrote:Just don't get AIDS.

Does having AIDs suck, Baffled?

Hah, I'm clean. I hang out with white people and stay out of shit holes like Africa. No AIDS for me, hombre.

TomFurman wrote:Is that the place from Endless Summer?

Skeleton Bay is a relatively "new" wave, but it's been surfed for maybe 20-odd years by locals (2-3 years in the spotlight).

Cape St. Francis is the spot you're referring to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_St._Francis

I want to smoke a bowl and just say 'Namibia' and 'Djibouti' all night

baffled wrote:

Gorbachev wrote:

baffled wrote:Just don't get AIDS.

Does having AIDs suck, Baffled?

Hah, I'm clean. I hang out with white people and stay out of shit holes like Africa. No AIDS for me, hombre.

Okey dokey. Remember: you should always insist that your lover wears a rubber sheath on his periwinkle.