Packing is not fun

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Fun is planning the trip. Fun is anticipating the upcoming adventures you will soon experience.

But packing is not fun. Not when packing for 6 days in a modern urban city of 5 million. Not when packing for 4 days on a ship and four days on a train. Not when packing for two land safaris and three water safaris.

It’s like packing for three trips in one: dress up city events, dress middling for the ship and train and dress down for open top 4 x4 Range Rover dusty rides over barely existent bumpy roads in search of lions who are probably hungry and elephants who need little excuse to run you over.

But then there is the picnic in the middle of the Botswana Savanna, the paragliding from Table Mountain in Cape Town, the mist washing over your face at the edge of Victoria Falls and the village school children singing when you visit their dirt floor classroom.

Well, maybe all the packing is worth it after all.