Wednesday December 10, 2008 Day 19

For some reason today we were all more beat than ever before AFTER our day off. It is tight around here with 20 people in a small area, and we are needing a change-up. In order to make a phone call home, I don't know if you understood what it took.

I had to borrow Rob's (the guide) phone, no instructions, then search the entire camp for a signal, found it, in the POUNDING sun, call Budget rentals, wrong number, found it, transferred, lost her, wrong number, finally a connection. Car rented, need a ride to the gate, sign your life away, drive back to camp in a low riding cheap car, scraping thorns and divots in the road, lock it, park it, go to bed. Up at 5 am in order to call while people are still up in the US. Get in cheap car, drive 45 kilometers, search the town for a phone, no luck, hard luck, finally. A phone booth next to dead chickens in the PUNISHING sun, and interested flies, heat from hell. Dial a zillion numbers, mess up, start over. Oh God, its ringing. Pick up pick up pick up pick up. Pray someone answers. - Amy