Ode to the Land Rover

Simon, dropping us off at the airstrip on our last day of safari.

You shiny beast, you impeccable ride,

No matter the water, you get us to the other side.

Over mud, you are nimble; over rivers, quick.

Not once did we ever…stick.

So you can’t call me a loser;

We just had to pull out your Land Cruiser.

True story.

Seeing where Simon would take the Rover quickly became one of my favorite parts of game drives. This crossing was one of my favorites: jagged rocks covered in several inches of water, hippos to the left, a monitor lizard on the right, and the destination an angled, uphill muddy slop. Simonisamazing became one word.

Just some of the park’s infrastructure.
Just a washed out bridge with hippos upriver? How pedestrian.

How I love adventuring here!

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