DeniseJCulbert

Hello again! It is now the afternoon of December 22nd and we have arrived in Swakopmund, which is where we will be until the 26th. The last few days have been pretty uneventful, as we have spent most of our time driving into Namibia. Swakopmund is awesome so far! I really like it. It is most German speaking, and looks like the biggest and most modern town we have been in yet. It also looks like there are some great Seafood places here, which is pretty exciting! We spent one of our nights at bush camp decorating the truck, so we are now an enormous yellow truck driving around with tinsel hanging everywhere from it - we don't stand out at ALL! Because of the decorations, and being in a bigger city where people are Xmas ... read more

Hello again!! It has been a very action packed few days since the last blog entry. The night encounter didn go so well...because of all of the heavy rains, we spent basically 2 hours getting stuck in the mud and trying to get the vechicles out and MAYBE an hour of watching the lions stalk and hunt. They didn even come close to catching anything, so that was a little disappointing... We left Antelope park 2 days later and went to Bulawayo. This place was really cool. Brittney and I decided to treat ourselves to a little upgrade ($4 a night to sleep inside, in a bed rather than in a tent!) The first day we got there in the after noon and just hung out. The next day was absolutely amazing! We did a "rhino ... read more

Hello again! This will have to be a very quick entry - its almost dinner time here, and if I doddle - dinner will be gone before I get any! Dad thanks for the info on the parasite! I'm glad to hear your home safe and sound! I have already bought the drugs for that parasite - which only set me back about 3$ US - not too bad. Aunt Sharon - thanks for writing! So nice to hear from you! I will be thinking about all of you ALL day on December 12th and wishing I could be there!! Dennis - your messages always make me laugh! Keep them coming! I hadn't heard about Sallinger, that's awful, but it sounded in your message like the recovery was coming along so thats good! I'm also super ... read more

Hello again! We are now at Kande Beach in Malawi (which acutally has nothing to do with Candy, much to my dissapointment). Chitimba Beach was really fun! I really enjoyed myself there! It really doesn't hurt to be spending my days on a beach at all... The afternoon after I posted last, was pretty uneventful....until...one of the guys on the trip (Ivan) is really into hypnotism, and he was attempting to hypnotize Michelle, but she got a little freaked out and stopped. So I asked him if he could try to hypnotize me, since I have never been, and wasn't really sure if it was real or not. So it turned into basically the entertainment for the group for the afternoon! It was so strange, apparently it went on for about an hour and a half. ... read more

Hello Again! Sorry about the delay in updating....internet is not quite as accesible these days! Everything is going great! Especially now that we are at Zanzibar island, which is absolutley paradise! The water is so clear and the sand is literally white. It's great weather as well! But I'll go back to our trip to the Ngorongoro crater and the Serengeti first... We woke up nice and early for our big game drive day. We took out tent down in the dark and had some breakfast and were on the road...it was about an hour drive up the the crater, which was absolutley awful for me, because I've developed a cough (yes...THAT cough)... pretty much ever since the camping has started, and with the cough came a gross disgusting full head, so therefore my ears were ... read more