Get me out of this desert!
I feel like im stuck in the movie Ground Hog Day, where everyday is the same. The Sahara desert seems to go on forever!
These sand duns, camel signs and dead patches of desert grass all look the same, the smell of stinky dried fish and even the police check points (which are every 50km) seem the same. The policemen’s faces look the same… maybe it’s the malaria pills or maybe I’m just losing my mind.
The only major thing that has happened today that made it different from yesterday, was blowing 3 tires and getting stuck in the middle of nowhere and forced to camp without food. At least we were able to light a fire. It’s amazing how burning things can lift your spirits. I spent most of the night burning every dry bush I could uproot. I guess I am a little bit of a pyro.
The road ahead keeps unfolding like a never-ending book with a billion pages. I guess the same goes for my life… I’m just following the road in front of me, hoping it never ends… like the sun that just set off to my right.
My best investment in the past few months has been this 50-cent note pad so I can write in the back of the car. The group has been pretty quite, not a lot of talking going on. I guess after spending a week driving together for 12 hours a day… what’s really left to talk about? I am loving the free time to let my mind wonder, it brings me back to when I was a boy and had no real problems or responsibilities and I would just sit and daydream about far off distant lands. For some reason I was always fascinated about time, and how if it was 8pm in Florida and it was getting dark that somewhere else in the world some kid was just waking up for school. But with all that daydreaming I still never ever dreamed that I would make it to all those places.
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