ly high up too. It gave me the creeps as I went higher and higher to the top with the girders narrowing in on me. I had to keep walking around at the top of it because if I stopped I could feel it moving and swaying a little, which at one thousand feet up, is very unnerving.South Africa is a peaceful country, unlike the way it is depicted in the news media. My preconception was that we would have to dodge bullets as soon as we left the airplane and entered a race riot that would surely encompass the airport. You probably have to look hard to find racial conflict in South Africa. What I saw was two races living happily together, enjoying the beauty of the land and the riches of it's resources. The lions surprised me too. One afternoon, we went to a lion preserve and after we had toured it's open spaces and come back and held the lion cubs, I walked to where the buses were parked. Our bus was beside a large fenced-in field with a group of lions in it. I sat down by the fence to relax and wait for our tour group to return. The lions saw me and got up and strolled over and sat down right beside me and waited with me as the afternoon sun was setting.
We communed on a primitive level, but we understood each other and engaged in a nonverbal communication of greeting, interest, and appreciation for the joy of each other's company. My wife at that time was enchanted by the majesty of those creatures. I told her they are our cousins and we share a common ancestor from millions of years ago. Our relatives, but now of a very different race. They carried with them a nobility that we all should aspire to.
Egypt gave me a sense of all that can be lost. Seven thousand years ago it was the greatest nation on earth. There is far more than the three pyramids in Giza you always see. There
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