When Cecil Hill asked me to join a group of friends from the club for a 3-week trip to the Kaokoveld, I agreed in a flash. Although, at the time of asking the trip was a year in the future, soon the trip was upon us and other plans had crept in. In particular, on the day of departure from Cape Town, I had to be in Pretoria as part of the GS Trophy adjudicating team.
So the route for me ended up looking like this:
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
The above statement, attributed to Carl Sagan, came to mind when I considered how and/or when and/or where to start this report.