19th – Goodbyes and departure

I got up for breakfast with the others to say goodbye to everyone before they left. It was nice getting the last moment together before going our separate ways, and as the owner had let us remaining keep our rooms until 1300 there was only one thing to do; go back to the room and get a few more hours of extra sleep.

At an appropriate time we were picked up and brought to the airport. We said our goodbyes, I checked in, wandered the halls of the airport until departure, had my layover in Dubai and arrived home at the scheduled time.

And that was it. A short but satisfying (that leopard, though…) trip to do some wildlife watching in more luxurious conditions that what I am used was really nice, but I will admit flying for 14 hours for a single week is a bit much. But thanks to Shape of Water, The Snowman, Atomic Blonde, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Suburbica, Logan Lucky, 2307: Winter’s Dream (no… just no), Renegades, S.M.A.R.T Chase, 24 Hours to Live, What Happened to Monday, Shot Caller, S1E1 of Designated Survivor and Cardinal I kept my sanity during the flights and got caught up on movies I hadn’t gotten around watching yet.

Thanks to Soekie for being such a nice host in Johannesburg. While I do understand the security reasons for putting your house on lockdown in the evening it’s piss annoying that we on the last night together had to be in our rooms before 2130 because of that – and even more so when realizing the wifi got cut off too at that point. Thanks to Johan for being a great guide on the tour, and big thanks to Cobus and Adolf, our driver and tracker in the Karongwe Game reserve, you guys were fun.  Last but not least; big thanks to Andrea, Susan, Anu, Scott, Debbie, Gail, Bruce, Noreen, Paul, Stephen, Robin, Eliza, Steve and Aviva for being such cool people and making the trip memorable. It was a fun week and it’s too bad that we didn’t get more time together.

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