Rain, Rain, Go Away

Alrighty, so today it's raining again. Monday and today have been the only two crappy days, so I guess we should count ourselves lucky. Yesterday was a beautiful day when we went out to Robben Island. Oh, our fourth, Ann arrived on Tuesday afternoon after an ordeal in Frankfurt. Never travel with full passports - always make sure you have at least one full blank page! So, it was a really informative trip - I knew very little about the politics behind apartheid and the situation on Robben Island with white guards and black prisoners. They also had black guards, but there was even a race distinction between the guards. And on Robben Island there were serious criminals and political criminals, like Nelson Mandela - and they were treated differently, etc. It was kind of like Alcatraz, but friendlier. Most of the tour guides and people who worked on Robben Island are former prisoners and they still live there in houses around the island. And there's wildlife on the island as well - more penguins!

BTW, tomorrow evening, Mina, Ann and I embark on our Overland camping tour. We officially leave on Saturday morning - and we take a township tour in Capetown first before leaving. For those newer to the blog, here is our schedule - it's on an older April posting:

May 19: start Intrepid Tour in Capetown
May 20: Orange River
May 21: Fish River Canyon in Namibia
May 22-23: Namib-Naukluft National Park
May 24-26: Swakopmund
May 27-28: Etosha National Park
May 29-30: Windhoek (capital of Namibia - or something like that)
May 31-June 2: Okavango Delta (Botswana)
June 3-5: Chobe National Park (Botswana)
June 5-6: Victoria Falls/Livingstone (Zambia) - end of Intrepid Tour

I'm pretty excited for it. Namibia is supposed to be amazing! I'm excited to see some serious animals, aside from penguins and ostriches. A lion would be nice. Although hippos and rhinos would be awesome too.

I have no idea how "modern" our trip will be, so I am not sure how often I will be able to update the blog. I know, I know, the 10 people out there reading this will be devastated. I am too. But I will try my best to use the Internet whenever we get the opportunity. I might not be able to upload pictures until maybe Livingstone in Zambia or Johannesburg (which is after the Intrepid Tour).

I think one of our missions for today's rainy day adventure is to find this legendary donut that they make in Capetown. It might not be legendary - but it's called a Koeksister. Here's a link about them:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/3883297a6534.html

That and maybe Ann and I will have some more sleeping bag races around our apartment. I'd give you a YouTube link to the videos we took of our sleeping bag adventures the other evening, but apparently, the files are too large and Laura uploaded 0% in 30 minutes. That was progress.