Preparations

2 days to go. No. 1,5. Will be taking off tomorrow evening at 20:45 from Frankfurt. To JoBurg. Niel's gonna pick me up at the airport in the morning. Will stay with Niel, Nicolette and the kids over the weekend and then take the bus up north to Makhado on Monday at 9. Ian and Retha will then pick me up and we'll drive up to their land, the Lajuma Mountain Retreat (www.lajuma.com).

2-3 days in the mountains and then to either Mapungubwe, Chobe, Kalahari NP, Okavango Delta, Kgalagadi, Upington and back OR Kruger, Swasiland, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Capetown, Upington and back. We'll see once I have talked to Ian and the students, a few of which might join me...