If it's Good Enough for Brad & Maddox.....

Two more days in Swakupmond has meant two more great days of adventure in the Namib desert for Kathleen & me!

Day before yesterday we went quad biking, which is basically tearing through the dunes on a four wheeler. SO MUCH FUN!!! We had the gas on full throttle, and would get as high on the sides of the dune faces as the motors would allow! Wind & sand in our faces, and it was just great!

Funny note about the quad biking place: right when you walk into the shop, you're greeted by a shrine to the Jolie-Pitt family. Apparently, Brad & Maddox used this company many times to rent quads and go 4-wheeling in the dunes while they lived here for Angelina to give birth. The company had a ton of photos and article clippings laminated and on display. Very funny. I, of course, requested the helmet Brad used so I could later steal it and then sell in on e-Bay to help finance some of these adventures! :)

Yesterday was even better -- we went sand boarding!! Kathleen did the stand up version, which is basically snow boarding, but on the big sand dunes. And I did the lay down version, which is basically sledding or that crazy skeleton sport you see in the Winter Olympic Games. We used a thick piece of cardboard as our "high tech speed machines," and just flew down the dunes face first!! They used a speed gun on one of the bigger slopes and my fastest time clocked in at 72 kph!! Such fun, but also A LOT of work...you see there are no ski lifts in the desert, so between each run we'd have to hike up in the loose sand. Great work out, and just enough to ensure we were super sweaty so on the next run every piece of exposed skin would be coated and caked with sand. I think we'll be finding sand in the shower for our next twenty washes or so!

Wish you were all here for these crazy adventures!

Mere & Kathleen