It's now one week until my departure date and my passport, the cause of much stress over the last couple of weeks, has finally been renewed. To my great relief, I'm all set to go.

For the last few weeks I've been working alternate evenings at home to get the database ready before I go. It's pretty much there, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to spend the majority of my time in Botswana training a couple of nominated people in how to use it and writing some reports.

Tomorrow I'm going to raid Boots to lay in some insurance against Botswana Belly and other tropical diseases!