Probably. I shouldn't make unfair assumptions though. Perhaps you knew all this already. So let's say "I was wrong about Africa". It is larger than I thought. It still has more wild spaces left than I thought. It is safer than I thought. It is happier than I thought. It is healthier than I thought. It is more diverse than I thought. It is more vibrant than I thought. It is more prosperous than I thought. And it is even more beautiful than I thought and I was expecting it to be very beautiful.
Africa has shredded my favorite travel shirt, indelibly stained my pants, driven soil so deep into the dermis of my heels (wore flip flops almost all the time) that a week of scrubbing hasn't removed it and, most distressingly of all, destroyed a camera lens, but I love it. I really love it.
We fly to Istanbul tonight, but for now I still have another hour to sit on the balcony and look out across beautiful Cape Town at Table Mountain. If there is a better view I have yet to find it.
The photos do not relate to the post, but are just of signs seen along the way in Africa that didn't make it onto previous posts.
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