Rundu

I traveled to Rundu this weekend. It was a thanksgiving holiday celebrated at House Barvaria. House Barvaria is a hotel in Rundu run by an Ex-PCV who is now Namibian. Every Easter, Thanksgiving, and 4th of July he invites PCV's to his resort, and we bring food and cook it up. There are world teach people that come along with just any other foreigner's that we know. It was nice to have a bunch of potatoes, turkey, gravy, and the fixings. We even had a football game in the dark. Along with one poker game that i lost horribly at. I lost on my 3 best hands of the night, and in hindsight, the only hand i could have won in like 45 min was when i folded on the river with two tens. I could have possible won that hand but it was not a good night for me, good thing I only started with 10 tango.

The trip to Rundu started Friday, at about 9:00. I started walking out of town like normal, and after like 30 min got picked up by a ministry car traveling to Rundu. It was sweet ride, with a guy and his daughter. They went fast maybe 160-180kph, that's about 100mph. Till Divundu, then with a quarter tank we found out that they didn't have any fuel at the only gas station. We barely made it the last 200km to Rundu and were on E for the last 40km. It also took a lot longer as we only drove like 80kph to try and save fuel.

After making it to Rundu, I headed to Omarashi, the nicest resort in town, and meet up with other volunteers at the pool. We can't afford to stay at the hotel, but it seems they have no problem letting a bunch of Americans chill at the hotel. I even ran down to the river with Kaitlin, but after a little conversation we decided that we shouldn't swim to Angola. (little is about everyone we asked saying there are tons of croc's and Kim saying last time she walked down she saw 9 in that area)

The only problem i had the entire weekend was leaving. There were no cars leaving towards Katima. I was on the road for an hour, and saw 4 cars total. I saw 2 that were only going 10k (they stoped) and the other two ignored me. Long story short, it took about 8 hours hiking, 5 were in the back of a truck filled with tools, at 80 kph in the sun. The only good thing was they were free, and I saw a leopard family, 2 big cats and a baby.