Quads and The Universal High-Five

So I said I wasn't going to give an update unless we had something fun or exciting to write about and as it turns out I have both! First for the bit of fun...

Everyone knows how I like my high-fives... Well it turns out everyone here is game too! So not only have I been getting plenty of high fives but yesterday we are hauling you know what down the highway and I'm sitting in the back of the truck when I see some dude also sitting in a truck bed heading the opposite direction. Seeing this as an opportunity that can't be missed I hang out over the side of the truck and put one up for a fiver! Random dude responds! We're going for it at a combined speed of way-to-fast when as we pass we just barely miss. :( Probably a good thing though since the resulting crack and pain of shattered hand bones wouldn't have been fun. It was just fun to have gotten that response!

Now for the exciting! It just so happened that a guy in our hunting party shot and we think wounded a wildebeest. While this in and of itself isn't exactly exciting, the hunting and tracking that came after it definitely was! After refuling with both food and petrol we went back into the fields with two four wheelers and a dirt bike. Now think about this. This is a redneck's fantasy! Tearing through the African bush on quads with guns looking for a wildebeest!!

While I didn't have a gun it was most certainly exciting cruising through the woods with a giraffe running alongside me 20 yds to my left. I've not had much time on 4-wheelers but after 6 hours in the bush I felt like a pro. Definitely an exciting experience and one worth noting!

Some random notes from the weekend that I just remembered...

* Our shower in the hut was outside and under a roof but it was locker room style... There were two shower heads in one gigantic outdoor shower room. I asked about this and was met with the approximate response of: "The guy who designed these places liked to party and laid out the specification that the showers must have room for four." Hahaha. Awesome answer.

* Don't discuss politics with a large group of great white hunters that came from the states to hunt large African game unless you're ready to go off the deep end. I'll leave it at that.

* Michael Jackson happened to be a favorite musician/artist of one of the locals in Vaalwater. I still maintain that every one on this planet knows of MJ. 2 year old kids out in the bush included! ;)

* We got into an interesting discussion on endangered animals and so I'm doing an informal poll. Oh dear three readers of this blog, with out looking it up: Are elephants endangered? Yes or no?

That's all for now! We are on our travels back to the states. We go through London and Chicago before getting to Denver 36 hours later. Maybe have some update for you all later on! TTFN!

-- Dan