‘I…. just…. saw…. a…. crocodile!!!!!!!’ With a pale face and an open mouth I stare into the swamps, pointing at the place where I just saw a crocodile run into the water. Yesterday evening Antoine claimed to have heard one, but I did not believe him. For the better, because last night we had to sleep in a small, straw hut without a door, only meters away from the swamps. I would not have dared to close my eyes.
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The sound of wind rushing, blowing… Hour after hour after hour… Time has no significance… Only wind… heat… One of my first memories, driving through the Mohave desert of Nevada, the car window of our old blue Chevrolet, speeding through the desert, open only a few centimeters. Sand as far as I can see.
`We made it!` With Johan en Jeannette’s 4 wheel drive we have just made it to Iwik. In the dark, straight through the desert, putting all our trust in their GPS.
Sometimes I look up in the sky and marvel at the fact two brothers from just over a century ago invented both, the modern bicycle and the airplane. The airplane, they invented on the quiet beaches and dunes of South Carolina. I visited there as a boy. The first place an airplane ever flew.
