Kruger National Park, Punda maria : Lockdown Day 185 - Sunday 27 September

After breakfast we left Ximongwe Bush Camp and waved a sad goodbye to Parsons Balule Game Reserve which has been our home for the last 6 months.

We drove into Kruger and up to Punda Maria Camp. The campsite is pleasant if not a little crowded with a floodlit waterhole with lots of elephants to make me feel at home. We are camping with Hanli and Andrew. By sunset we were all set up, wine in hand.

We had a great steak braai. We're on the road again but the lack of any plans beyond the end of October is freaking me out.When you travel full time like us and you don't have the permanence of jobs or schedules or school terms or monthly bills or house maintenance, your anchors become planned itineraries, booked long haul flights, pre-paid trips and tickets to major entertainment or sporting events procured well in advance. We're in the caravan in the Kruger Park right now and I'm living in the moment ( to all those mindfulness gurus out there - there is such a thing as too much clarity of mind and moment BTW. ) I'm irrationally mad with this Covid Pandemic and Lockdown today and how it is impacting our lives so I'd appreciate it if the universe would just cut me some slack. ( I don't even believe in that universal consciousness stuff but I've evoking it anyway! )