The last
couple of months of volunteering are usually spent winding down, however for
Mike and I it was the complete opposite with moving houses and cities, for me a
change in volunteering roles, for Mike implementation of an internet based
system and just a scale up in work for both of us.
All of this
has meant that the preparation and research that most people do before a big
trip like ours has been left to the last few weeks of our time in Zambia; all
the while trying to still parts of Zambia we have yet to visit! So I guess you
could say we are now multi-tasking, travelling around Zambia and squeezing in
errands and preparation in between.
The biggest
piece of preparation we still have is finalising paperwork for the car “Ruth”,
as well as a few “tweaks” mechanically to make sure she will get us all the to Ethiopia”. In a developed country this
would be somewhat time consuming, but in Zambia it can be a bit of a nightmare.
Finding the right people to speak to and finding the right parts can be
extremely difficult and requires travelling all over town.
We have
still to arrange shipping for a few of our things back to Australia. We have
been in Zambia for 18 months and even in that time have acquired a number of
things that I would like to keep.
For our
trip we still need a few items to make camping more comfortable, we need to
arrange at least one visa for Ghana (we will be flying there from Ethiopia and
can’t enter without the visa being prearranged), need to finalise things with
VSO Zambia and still have quite a bit of research to do for the countries we
want to drive through.
While this
is going on we had pre-planned trips to Kaufe National Park as well as a final
trip to Livingstone. A visit to South Luangwa National Park is also on the
cards as we head out of Zambia to Malawi.
So I think
“craziness” is a good description of our lives at the moment.
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