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Day 4 last night at safari

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Thornhill Lodge with our guides
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Day 3 Kruger National Park

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Day 2 reached camp for safari

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Day 1 Joburg Apartheid Museum

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Layover!

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Cathay Pacific

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Thank god for entertainment.
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Day 0 travel

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On my way to the airport!
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The events that started last week had really put a  worry on my travel plans.  I prayed that my parents wouldn’t see the news, but they did, and called me this morning but thankfully things have started to die down a little bit.  Of course, the news articles all mention “foreigners” which my parents took for a literal meaning whereas it is really referring to Africans from other African nations and are immigrants to South Africa.  I think all is okay for Cari and I to continue our journey altho I do have a contingency plan or two in my back pocket, in case. 

I’m currently packing and I think back to the morning of my packing before my Europe trip last year and am quite impressed by my growth in ability to travel (relatively) light.  Since its gotta fit back into that backpack and I have to carry it, it’ll have to be light.  I’m pretty good about flying long hours (my past trips where I would go and come back, only to go to Asia a few days later)… but this is the first time I’m doing a double whammy.  1 hr from here to SFO, 14 hrs from SFO to HK, 5 hr layover HK, 13 hrs from HK to JHB.  That is all by myself to boot.  I’m ripping as many Korean dramas as I can onto my Ipod as we speak.  woot!

Almost 2 weeks until my next big trip, where I will be rendez-vous’ing with Cari in Johannesburg, South Africa to kick things off!  In preparation, I had to get a series of vaccinations which ranged from shots to oral medications.  I felt like a hypochondriac with my 5 prescriptions and sore arm, but I guess its better to be safe than sorry.  I started my series of Typhoid pills yesterday, which need to be refrigerated due to live bacteria cultures (I call them “my baby typhoids”).  The baby typhoids have decided to revolt, and I woke up with a horrible migraine this morning.  Ugh.  Not looking forward to those Malaria pills….