Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June 21, 2010

the end of a vehicular era

As you may have gathered from my previous posts, my Land Cruiser has been a big part of my adventures in East Africa over the past (~8) years. It's saved my life from charging Cape buffalos and elephants. (I was a *little* too busy putting the pedal to the metal to snap and photos of those close encounters of the large mammal kind!) It's saved my life from bad Nairobi drivers - someone once hit the side of my car in a roundabout; it was slightly scratched, and her front bumper fell off. I've crossed country borders in it probably a dozen times. I've slept in it, eaten in it, observed countless wildlife, sunrises, sunsets, and starry nights in it. (Have I mentioned is has three roof hatches? Three! )   I've driven through some dusty  places in it. (Yeah, I know the car is brown, but it was absolutely covered in dust in this picture.) We've gotten each other out of being stuck in aardvark holes. Well, OK, maybe I did more of the rescuing in those ...