My Friends and I

We've been here for a few weeks now. Oh, it can get so boring sometimes! Except for a few hikes and a bike tour I was most of the time in bed. As if I were tired. As if I needed to rest.
Thank God my cousin Dolly (or Lola, as Veggie likes to call her) is here. I like her very much, but she's a little too pretentious for me. She never goes out and she NEVER EVER gets dirty! She just likes opera and ballet and watches TV most of the time. She told me when we first met that I am spoiled and I felt quite offended. She has a big heart, though.

And then, there's also Fritz. She's damn smart. She's stressed out working on her PhD thesis. Dolly and I are giving her a hand with that. She'd be totally lost without our support. However, sometimes we still need to ask Veggie for help. You see, Excel tables and such are not really my strength. But I'm becoming very knowledgeable in that area soon. Or maybe not, since we're leaving in a couple of days. Hmmmm, travelling again...

To be honest I'm anxious, eager to travel again. It's a huge world but there are relatives of mine pretty much everywhere, I discovered. So I feel at home everywhere. The only thing I'm not really looking forward to is that old smelly backpack I'll be in again. Especially now that I am clean and smelling so good. Veggie took her time to prepare a bubblebath for me when we got here and I think it paid off. I smell soooo good!!

I'm looking forward to the desert. I wonder whether we'll go sandboarding again. I loved so much being in the sand. Those were my softest landings ever. I enjoyed so much the dunes at Sossusvlei that I actually jumped out. In hindsight, I think it was good that Spiros found me, I would have frozen at night there. Plus, I would have missed so many places. Oh, and Veggie would have missed me, too. Yes, it's probably better this way.

Anyway, I better get to do some more packing. Veggie is almost ready with her preparations and I'm still stuck with the statistics for patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis.
But I'm not yet sure about my attire. It's definitely not going to be the orange "African" silk scarf. I need something more appropriate for the Middle East. I guess I better ask Dolly for advice. Plus, Veggie might come any minute now and find me here on the keyboard.

Pepe