All, sorry to be out of touch over the last few days while in Zimbabwe. As you may have heard about in the news, they had a run-off "election" right before we came. It wasn't much of an election really, since a vote for the opposition party earning you a beating if not a trip to jail or worse. Telephone connections to the US were shut off, and the internet service was down. Journalists were jailed, and despite the fact that this blog has no journalistic integrity what-so-ever, I didn't want to take any chances. Most of the mayhem was far far far from us --- and Thankfully the state controlled media kept all of the blood, guts, riots, and looting sufficiently suppressed so as not to ruin our good time.
If there is something good to be said about the nasty political situation here, its that there's some great vacation deals to be had! Sure people are suffering as the local economy spirals endlessly downward, but consider the bright side. When we asked for some connected rooms at the century old Victory Falls Hotel (and when they feared we might go elsewhere to find such rooms) they graciously offered us the presidential suite. In fact, this suite was the same suite that hosted Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on their visit to the falls several years ago.
Pop, insert joke in poor taste here:
(1) "Did you disinfect or fumagate it?"
(2) "Was the outhouse unavailable?"
(3) "Could you hear the echo of her shrill voice?"
More on Victoria Falls and our Zimbabwe experience in a bit. For the time being, I have about a weeks worth of nonsense on the brain related to our Serengeti trip which needs to be purged from my brain. Bear with me as I play catch up.
RT
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I was wondering how the timing of your visit panned out. I think y'all were lucky that Tsvangirai pulled out of the run off.
P.S. I'd say Zimbabwe blew past the brink of collapse and shifted into fifth gear, barreling towards failed state status a few years ago! What a shame, too. That's an amazing country.
~Mike
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