threedogs

Danielle

41 / Female

Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia

About threedogs

Member since 1st Jan 08

Citizenship: Australia
Marital Status: De Facto
Occupation: Stablehand and uni student
About threedogs:

Late uni starter, Bachelor of Science part time now starting 4th year. Have a love affair with Africa and aim to spend time in research there in biology/ecology/conservation.
Two sons aged 19 and 15. Oldest followed girlfriend to Queensland so only one home now. Work 6/7 days a week for thoroughbred racing stables.

Hobbies:

No hobbies as such. Have retired from active equestrian sport. Live a quiet country life!

Favourite places:

Namibia, Zimbabwe (especially Hwange, Lower Zambezi), South East of South Australia, Sydney, Phuket.

Activity : photos (4) forum (0) guide (0) blog (10) diary (0) trips (0)

Latest Blog Entry

Running the Gauntlet -

Posted by threedogs | 2nd February 2008

Normally, when one tries to estimate how long a particular road trip is going to take, it is a relatively straightforward process. You get your map out, work out the number of kilometres, divide by 100 for ease and voila! - x amount of hours driving plus any rest breaks. Simple. However in Africa, or at least in many parts of Africa this equation if you will, does not take into account the donkey factor. Or even the goat factor, or the pedestrian factor, foot and mouth factor, customs and immigration factor, vet control point factor or even the obligatory police road block factor. All of which we encountered from Etosha to Divundu.
Although it was a lovely day, not the extreme heat we had been experiencing, we soon ran into a glitch in our well laid plans. As our Namibian part of the holiday was basically over, we had virtually exhausted our Namibian dollars and were planning on changing some of our Australian dollars to Pula at a bank in Grootfontein in preparation for crossi

Continued | Tales from Namibia and Botswana