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   From: ___schwann___@@%webtrance.co.za   
      
   Distilling some kind of message for future historians while offering   
   entertainment at the same time is not as easy as I'd once thought, or   
   maybe it will be after I get back from the Kalahari as I have been   
   persuaded by my AD, Mike, and my best friend, Mike, (USA botanist), to   
   take a 'quick' trip up to Augrabies Falls on the Southern edge of the   
   Kalahari desert for 6 days.   
      
   The Kalahari is reputedly the 'cradle of mankind', or it was last time I   
   looked, but things change and anyways, the kalahari, 'is' one of Earth's   
   most desolate and primordial places, whatever your scientific belief, so   
   I'm taking extra fuel and water just in case. We'll shoot some scenes in   
   the desert, and also of the falls. There may be beautiful flower   
   displays as it's spring here. And it helps that Mike can identify every   
   known species up North because that's his speciality, so besides the   
   geological data he throws in, it's like having a mad scientist on board   
   because he's like the 'lawyer' in Fear and Loathing. You can't let him   
   out of the vehicle because he disappears into the landscape, tasting the   
   earth every hundred paces, looking for rare species with his GPS so he   
   can return (one day soon) and see how they're doing. All in all, a   
   thousand clicks there, and another thou back...add in another fifty   
   percent for 'exploration and mistakes', and you got close to a 3000   
   click round trip. so yeh..if there's am internet cafe at the 'Lost City   
   of the Kalahari, I'll update you from there...   
      
   schwann   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)