Tell me of your home world Usul

Howdy.  We are still in Sossusvlei Namibia right now.  There’s not a lot to do here, two lodges and a gas station and that’s it.  Last night Jacob, Troy, Sunil and I rode our bikes to the nearest sand dune, climbed it and saw the sunset.  It was breathtaking (literally, those things are big).  We didn’t know how one was supposed to get there, so we rode as the crow flies.  We went over bushes and through deep grass, and generally had a fun ride.  We also discovered that there was a road that leads directly from camp to the sand dune.  On the way back we tried that and found it to be much easier going.  This morning my alarm went off at 3:45 to get up to go to some bigger and better dunes (this is not an acceptable time to get up, bars in NYC don’t even close by then).  There were two dunes that we drove to, the smaller one and Big Papa.  Most of the group climbed the smaller one because they wanted to see the sunrise and didn’t think they could get all the way up Big Papa before it happened.  They were right, I climbed the big one, didn’t get a great sunrise view, but did get a spectacular view of all the rest of the dunes.  We sat up there for half an hour or so just looking around.  Climbing up dunes kinda sucks, but getting down is incredible.  You just jump, and then jump again.  It took us 45 minutes to an hour to get up the thing and roughly 10 to get back down.  All in all I’d have to say it was a pretty damn good day.  Oh, congrats to Monique and Chris, sorry I wasn’t able to be there for the big day.

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