"Contact!"

At long last! Good lord it has been a while, and my sincerest apologies because I have failed to deliver promised posts! So, with a hand that strikes each key with a degree of uncertainty, I wonder where to begin....

I'll rewind quickly. I am in Cape Town after nearly 2000km of road tripping from southern Botswana, the Tuli Block, where I finished the last month of my field guiding course. The course, which began at the beginning of March at a private game reserve near Kruger NP was outstanding. To give an encompassing description I struggle, but really the course was designed to make level 1 Field Guide Association  of Southern African certified guides. A guide which is certified to conduct vehicle bound game drives. And yes I can bloody shoot a rifle. Getting there was an intense process--long days, seven to eight hours of game driving every day, dust, snakes, sun (hot sun), lectures, bird watching, frogging, rocking, owling, cliff climbing, sunset viewing, star gazing, soul penetrating everything, frivolous and jovial, a serious good time!! The details, stories and nitty gritty in betweens are soon to come.

For me life is rocking. I promise you this is the most alive the young Tabacco has felt in a while. The perfect cocktail of learning, love, adventure, naughtiness, daring, nature and health to set me up on a small high for months. I am so blessed to be here now. Love to all friends and family, missing you a lot a lot. And a special shout to my UCSB-UCT friends, I am thinking of you guys every day. Trying to figure out my next movements which I shan't try to predict now.

Another bloody rough day in Africa!

More stories and accompanying photos to come.
XOXO
Tabacco