“An adventure begins at dawn with quiet conversations on a runway or a platform or a quay, about things someone has forgotten to bring.”
Not a bad trip…didn’t leave too many things behind…but of course there are always some things…our first night at the lake we realized we hadn’t brought any blue death even though we promised ourselves never to go camping again without it…I’ve been to too many campsites and been overrun with ants—blue death is the answer…a powder that you put around and when they walk through it they take it back and then never return…but luckily for us none of our campsites had too many and none of them came in the tent…
#2—my flipflops…I know—me leave behind my shoes!!—the only pair I brought on the trip, knowing that I wouldn’t wear any others anyway…we were in zim staying with Ute’s friend and I got so comfortable wandering around the place barefoot that I left them outside the front door…I guess this also comes with the fact that I drive barefoot…because I drove away and only realized I’d left them when we’d arrived at our next destination and I looked down to put them on and they weren’t there…made it about 3 days without any shoes (climbed around the Greater Zim ruins without) but in Bulawayo (big town) on the hot concrete in the middle of the day I had to get to the market to buy some…sadly they only lasted 4 days (tops) before breaking at Vic Falls—but duct tape saves the world…(they are still working)
And lastly I left my toothbrush one day…but that was easily replaced that afternoon…
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