Time slows down closer I get to my safari

[jimbo1972]

Since I first watched Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom I have dreamed of hunting Africa. Over a year of planning, exercise, loosing weight, shooting multiple rifles to decide which two make the cut, testing different ammo from a bench, ton of shooting from 3 different types of standing sticks, breaking in new boots, packing, unpacking, reducing what I am taking and repacking. Except for some very small details I am already to go for my first Safari in South Africa is just over two weeks.
Been on a ton of whitetail and hog hunts and a few western Elk, mule deer and bear hunts. Always get excited but don't ever remember being this excited for anything. Did anyone else feel like time slowed down and barely creeped along as their Safari was getting closer? The last few weeks seem like months.

 

[Trogon]

My first trip was in April 2021 with all of the Covid BS ongoing but you could finally go to South Africa. Scrambled to get my two vaccine shots before I left the US, anything to help to finally get to the Eastern Cape after being postponed in 2020. I would love to do that trip over again just to experience it (minus the Moderna vaccines). Had a fantastic time.
Congrats and wishing you a great trip! Look forward to reading your mandatory hunt report!

 

[jimbo1972]

My first trip was in April 2021 with all of the Covid BS ongoing but you could finally go to South Africa. Scrambled to get my two vaccine shots before I left the US, anything to help to finally get to the Eastern Cape after being postponed in 2020. I would love to do that trip over again just to experience it (minus the Moderna vaccines). Had a fantastic time.
Congrats and wishing you a great trip! Look forward to reading your mandatory hunt report!

Going to Eastern Cape myself. Will post trip report as soon as I digest my hunt. Thanks for the encouragement.

 

[Trogon]

Absolutely. Sounds like you're doing all of the right things, especially shooting off sticks (I did not do that enough). I had a good friend I worked with at the time, and he made it worse by asking me about the trip (I swear) every day from 3 weeks out. Timing really dragged from then on.
I subsequently punished him by constantly giving him hunt descriptions of every animal I hunted and what it was like being in Africa for a first-timer hunting Africa, for the next 2 weeks when I got home. Lol