The SidevieW theme that she has chost
Is ‘Something I Have Never Done Before’;
I must admit it has me lost –
For all I’ve ever done will have to score!
The things one tries the first time round
One has not done before, I’ve found,
And some, of course, like getting drowned,
Will happen once, and then be done no more.
My Ma’s advice she taught to me:
That something done the first time is a thing
One should avoid implicitly –
The first times always difficulties bring!
No, all that one sets out to do
One should have done before, so you
Can be quite sure you up don’t screw –
And to such dictum I intend to cling!
To give a bit more value to the theme, and also promote my Ginger William of Orange series, here is a map of the route followed in that trip. It formed part of my original 35mm slide show, but I have never reduced it to digital or blogged it before!
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That was quite the trip you guys took Col!
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More coming soon!
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It’s hard to argue with a mother’s advice, (being a mother, I should know), but, tell me, how is it possible to do something a second time without doing it a first time? Am I missing something here? 😉
And I do love your first reaction about never having drowned before… 🙂 Good for you!
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Doing things the second time IS usually easier,. you should have listened to your mother
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Haha! Sidey’s theme was perfect timing for me . . . and paddle boarding was TONS of FUN.
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And thanks for including the map. It’s helpful to see where you trekked.
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From ocean to ocean – I must admit even I am impressed, looking at it now.
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I forgot to express my admiration for the success of your first attempt. You must have very good natural balance.
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Thanks, my balance is pretty good. Yoga helps. But I’m not ready to try YOGA on the YOLO board.
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No sense of adventure Col????
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Look at all the sticky ends adventurers come to!
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Quite a great trek you did. Ginger Fizz wouldn’t have been able to find his way home, even if he’d been so inclined, which I’m sure her wasn’t. 🙂 Your really awful rhyme has me all confuzzed. How do you do something for the second time, if you haven’t ever done it before? 😕
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You’d have to ask my mother that – it was her saying. Maybe one should just do a fast-forward to the second time!
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🙂
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That is a long trip!
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That is no maybe! Especially the return, which we only left a couple of days for!
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That’s one really long trip. I’m sure you had lots of fun along the way
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As the Ginger William eposodes reveal!
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You should add not yet, maybe one day?
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Ummmmm…
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In years past it was considered quite the undertaking to travel so far in a combi camper… I am really enjoying your trip .. can’t wait for the next episode…
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Glad you are enjoying it. One must also recall that the roads were pretty awful over long stretches of it.
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Amazing place, SWA/Namibia. When did you visit it?
LOL the Hardap Dam is usually hardap for water. … and you didn’t do Swakopmund?
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As the preamble to each episode says, it was early 1975.
There was plenty of water when we were there!
Yes – Swakopmund was included – one can’t miss it going to Walvis Bay. We slept over.
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That’s quite a journey.
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It was, indeed, with plenty of added interest!
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