January 27, 2012 En route to Namibia

     As I write this blog, we are on our way from Cape Town to the border of Namibia, close to the coastline.  We are with a group of eight people from various parts of the world; a great group of people. Our bus looks more like a giant monster truck and I'm pretty sure it can steer us throiugh anything we may come across in the next 44 days.  If this was at the Fair Grandstand, I think it could drive over anything in front of it.
     Our last day in Cape Town was a good adventure.  We met a taxi driver named Fungai.  He ia a 26 year old boy from Zimbabwe with a big dream.  His dream is to make enough money in South Africa driving a taxi so that he can buy a truck and go hoome, where he can find a good job using his truck.  I thought for sure that he had chnged his name to Fun Guy, but when I pronounded his name that way, I was corrected.  Soooo, Fungai it is.  We negotiated a price and he drove us along the coastline to Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope.  Along the way he stopped several times to gaze at the views and take pictures.  He used his Blackberry and said he was collecting pitures for Face Book because his friends in Zimbabwe would not believe he was seeing such beauty.  I think Fungai enjoyed the day as much as we did, as it was the first time he had ever been to Cape Point.  Along the way we brainstormed ways he could access money in exchange for transportation.  Ed promised to give him a good reference on Trip Advisor online.  We have so many pictures to use but the machine I'm on right now doesn't have the plug-ins I need to upload them.  Someday, soon, maybe!