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Strewn on my lounge floor are some maps I’ve collected; Namibia Roads Authority Map 2008/2009, Mapstudio’s Namibia Road Atlas and AA Motoring in Namibia. All of them have snippets of tourist information on the country including places of interest, distances between cities and towns, people of Namibia, etc.
I’m reading numerous websites on visiting Namibia and am spending a lot of time reading people’s trip reports. A very useful, informative site is the 4x4 Community forum. Most of the posts and opinions are from males (some with big ego's!) I have found the occasional report or comment from other women. I’m beginning to realise how male-dominated this world of 4x4 travelling is! What are women doing? Just planning menus, buying groceries and doing the usual cooking, washing, ironing – trading the kitchen at the home for the kitchen at the campsite? I wonder. . .
Being a twitcher, I refer my favourite birding website SA Birding for advice on birding hotspots in Namibia and these will form the basis of my trip. My target is 50 ‘lifers’ over the year and I plan to get as close as possible to this on my BIG ADVENTURE.
To this foundation, I’m adding all the places of interest which sound interesting me or sound like an absolute “Must-See”. I’m going to start marking all of these on Mapsource, the software for my Garmin (a.k.a Judy). I'm also going to be including Tsumeb on my itinerary as I spent a year growing up there in my very very young days and I want to visit and see if I can recognise anything.
So far, so good . . .
I’m reading numerous websites on visiting Namibia and am spending a lot of time reading people’s trip reports. A very useful, informative site is the 4x4 Community forum. Most of the posts and opinions are from males (some with big ego's!) I have found the occasional report or comment from other women. I’m beginning to realise how male-dominated this world of 4x4 travelling is! What are women doing? Just planning menus, buying groceries and doing the usual cooking, washing, ironing – trading the kitchen at the home for the kitchen at the campsite? I wonder. . .
Being a twitcher, I refer my favourite birding website SA Birding for advice on birding hotspots in Namibia and these will form the basis of my trip. My target is 50 ‘lifers’ over the year and I plan to get as close as possible to this on my BIG ADVENTURE.
To this foundation, I’m adding all the places of interest which sound interesting me or sound like an absolute “Must-See”. I’m going to start marking all of these on Mapsource, the software for my Garmin (a.k.a Judy). I'm also going to be including Tsumeb on my itinerary as I spent a year growing up there in my very very young days and I want to visit and see if I can recognise anything.
So far, so good . . .
9 comments:
woohoo!! love it!!
been meaning to ask - how did the manifold cooking experiment go on your kalahari safari?
a new one for you - thermoscooking.com
ok, it's different now. a different format altoghther. everytime i would try to type the curser would disappear and i couldn't type.
good, now i feel better. i'll be back in the morning to make a proper comment. i'm falling asleep at the moment.
Hey Val, I didn't end up doing it on that trip. We did have omlettes cooked in freezer bags in boiling water though - which was a great success.
I love the idea of pasta-in-a-flask (while you're game driving). Definitely added to my 'trip menu'
Lori, glad comments sorted now.
xx
Hi Janet No2! I shall be here, checking on your progress. Hope you managed to get hold of the Chobe Nat Park booking people? Looking forward to meeting you in 2011 :)
hey karen - my adventure is 2010 and I hope to be meeting you in about 7 months time
:-)
I ook forward to mapping your progress - became your newest follower as well :)
Thanks for joining my blog the pale observer. Im hoping to bring you interesting reading and pictures.
I'll be following your country's progress with interest during the soccer world cup.
here i am, i wanted to say what a great idea this is janet, keeping your journal starting with the planning stages.
i love to plan, love the books and maps and website perusing. to me it is nearly half the fun of traveling.
i can't wait for this to happen. thanks for giving me this to look forward to.
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