Swakopomund Craziness (Spread My Wings and Fly Away)

We were lucky to have spent 2 nights in this small town (one of Namibia's biggest cities. Namibia is a huge country but only has 1.8 million citizens...thats 2 people per square km). They have some pretty good seafood and german-ish food (Schnitzel, mostly).

Yesterday was a bizarre and incredibly action packed day. The night before we had all gone out to this bar/club like thing above a action-sports booking center. I had a lot to drink (mostly I mixed too much, i had half a bottle of red wine, half of white, double shot of rum, and about 3 beers). While not that much, I woke up with my stomach feeling like crap cause of the weird mixture of juices the night before.

So, I woke up feeling iffy and went Sandboarding.We drove out to a massive dune with these huge sleds and rode them down at speeds of about 70 km/hr, which is really fast! I only wiped out once, and am still finding sand in places I didnt even know I had.

After a few hours of fun, we broke for lunch, and went back to our rest lodge. After a very quick shower, we were off to what Kait and I booked a day prior...

SKYDIVING!

I was incredibly nervous and sick all the way up to when I boarded the plane, and then all my nervousness went away. The super-nerd in me kept thinking of all the awesome movies with skydivers or major drops from high altitudes, and the various video games that included them too. This was weirdly calming, thinking that I'd be a real-life badass for a brief moment in time.

The first few seconds after jumping feels like going down a roller coaster. But very quickly I reached terminal velocity, and the free fall experience is unlike anything in the entire world. Words can't describe it, and it was simply breathtaking and amazing.

We opened the shoot (and it opened, thank god!) And glided down. My Tandem Master (the guy attached to me) gave me control of the shoot for about 2 thousand feet and I steered around the sky for a while, which was also way too wicked.

We had the option of staying in this town another night, and while 14 of 16 people here wanted to, this German couple decided it would be best to spend 2 nights (instead of 1) bush camping with no ammentities whatsoever. Its basically the allies versus the axis as we're trying to convince them to stay.

I'm off to do less deadly things now, and will be keeping both feet firmly planted on the ground for the time being.