A quick but major update

Photos to come, so don't harass me.

Two days ago, I spoke with the a couple of the chief pilots in town, and things looked fairly grim for a job, at least in the next couple months. So instead of renting my house, Ian (a Brit buddy) and myself have travelled over to Namibia. I am currently in Windhoek (Vind-hook), and will be travelling to Swakopmund in the afternoon. This is a coastal city in Namibia, and rumors are good for a job.

The trip over here was interesting to say the least. We (Ian and I) left Maun at 8:30 in the morning on a non-airconditioned bus, thankfully the day was overcast and the overall temperature was fairly low (about 28). We bussed to a "city" called Ghanzi (Han-Tzee), prior to arriving we had to go through three foot and mouth decontaminations. Nothing major just time consuming. From Ghanzi we caught a second bus to the Botswana boarder, cleared our exit customs, and start walking to the Namibia Boarder. It was just under a kilometer, but it was over 30 degree and we had all our gear. Once at Namibia customs we were both granted 90 day visas, and started walking to Windhoek (340km... yes three hundred and forty), fortunatly by step number 20 or so we managed to hitch a ride costing us 150 Rand each, or about 20CDN. After arriving in windhoek I checked into the hostel and went to bed as it was now nearly 10pm.

Windhoek is a beautiful city, or maybe I just came from Maun and anything that doesnt have donkeys wondering the streets seems amazing. Either way it's a huge improvement, with over 300,000 people, there are tall buildings, malls, shops and plenty to do. The country is also very pretty with hills and "mountains".

Anyways have to keep this short, more to come once i'm establised in Swakopmund.


Cheers.

Eli