Ok so here we are at an internet café in Swakopmund. This town is by the sea and it smells of saltwater and is actually quite cold. Must be about 65 degrees outside. The Benguela current from the Antarctic keeps it this way. Arandis, where my brother lives, is 70 km to the east and up on a plateau and it gets up to 120 degrees in the summer and it stays cool here in Swakop. Good thing it is winter here. For a desert—a very arid desert—it is pleasantly not very hot. Which is nice.
Anyhow, we spend a day in Windhoek looking around. I saw baboons. Arandis is a three hour drive to the north and west from the capital city. Arandis is a mining town. Kind of like an old mill village. All the houses are uniform and made of concrete blocks, tightly packed along the dirt dusty roads. My brother is in one of them.
I have learned to drive a right sided car on the left side of the road. Now if I could only rent a motorcycle for cheap I'd be in business.
Well, I could carry on, but won’t. I’ve been, and hopefully will be, posting pictures to my flickr stream. Maybe a video or two on Facebook as well. My cell phone reception is actually real good here, but don’t call, that could get very spendy. You can text, though. Seems alright since I don’t know how much those are costing me! Apparently we are heading “to the north” tomorrow for about three or four days of camping. I don’t know what kind of reception I’ll get up there. So, talk to you later.
