Zimbabwe, 2007
Returning to Vic Falls was like coming home, finding my place of rest. My adrenaline-filled day of madness there – white-water rafting, bungi-jumping and microlighting – heightened my sense of being alive. The water safari at Chobe was full of delightful encounters – a pod of wallowing hippos and a family of mud-bathing elephants, crocs on the shore and fish eagles in the sky – all magical memories of Africa that leave imprints on my soul.
I do not know which way my path will take, or even whether I am at a fork in the road. But at least I know – as I have always known – where I am most at home, most relaxed, most fulfilled: here, or perhaps almost anywhere, in Africa.
Diary entry, 30 August 2007
African Pace
Far from the cities
And far from the streets
Far from the people
Is where my heart beats
It beats in slow time
In the vast open space
It beats out the rhyme
Of an African pace
With the sun baking down
And the buzz of blue flies
With chirping cicadas
And gentle breeze sighs
There’s no need to rush
No deadlines to chase
Just the slow steady pulse
Of an African pace
The cool of the morning
The heat of high noon
The balm of the sunset
The silk of the moon
The stars’ steady march
The rivers’ etched face
The life loving rhythm
Of an African pace
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