Namibia-SA

Namibia

We saw Namibia in a different colour! Where there was desert, its now green! The rainfalls from Zambia also fell in Namibia! It was warm during the day and every day was sealed with the most spectacular sunset! We drove to Windhoek and Walvis bay. We wanted to see all the small towns we only hear about. Everything happens slowly and relaxed here. We climbed dune 7 which is the highest dune in the world.

Namibian Sunset

My brother climbing Dune 7

After crossing the border into South Africa we went to the Augrabies falls. It is a waterfall on the Orange river in South Africa and is about 60m in height. This broad river roars through a massive canyon with a force only known to water. The rapids and cascades were breathtaking with the floods that were coming down from Namibia and Zambia.

We then drove through a tiny town, because small is big compared to tiny, and met up with my friend Rishon and his family. Rishon's parents place is the place where the movie about the horse named Tornado played off. 

Augrabies falls

Our friends in Nuniput

South Africa

Before this day I never realized what was meant when someone said there is no place like home.. Its one of the ironies of life. You need sadness to appreciate joy, noise to appreciate silence, absence to value presence, and away to appreciate home. Living many years might not be full enough, but a full life will be long enough. This is why we have to look for the things that challenge the way we perceive and experience life. This is the only way you would learn what is truth, when you settled for less, what really matters and who you are. By risking going too far, you get to know how far is too far and how far you can really go.

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time" Johann von Goethe

Table Mountain, Cape Town

Driving home via Knysna forest

Home

Home means something new to me. You really don't know what you have until you leave it behind. You don't have to lose anything to learn from it. Depth of mind is a place all of us should visit more often, without life forcing you to go there. Then when heartache and heavy emotions come, this place will not be totally new to you. There were many days I wished my mom could have been on the trip with us, but her health did not allow it. And on the other side I don't think we would have ruffed it so much if she was there! I think there is value in boys trips, for there is a lot less pretense and guys turn from Super beings to human beings. I wish every dad and son can do a trip like this. This is where you learn trust, friendship and sticking together. A someone becomes that someone because of other someones. I hope everyone can find the inspiration and the courage to leave their comfort zones behind and live a little. If not now.. THEN WHEN..?


" When the bush is on fire, the antelope ceases to fear the hunters bullet" African Proverb

70 days, 21000km later