How about that!!

Here’s a thing. Elisse, my guide had picked me up from Lake Duluti on the Sunday morning. The day across the Rift Valley to get to the crater rim was the whole day… hours of driving. We had experienced the Masai celebration and arrived at a lodge high up on the crater rim for 2 days. But shock horror, I had left my phone charger in his truck. My phone is my alarm clock, my contacts and everything else. I couldn’t wait to ask him the next morning but he was absolutely sure it wasn’t there. I know I hadn’t taken it out if its wallet so I was baffled. I told him it didn’t matter, or could the hotel get me new one? I’d pay of course. Not that there were any shops and we were leaving for another long day drive into eastern Serengeti. He said I must have left it at Lake Duluti. He contacted the hotel,remembered I was in room 10 and told me it was there!!

“Oh Never mind , someone will make use of it” I said, it seemed so trivial to make a fuss of.

I had to get up the next day at 3.30am for the 2 hour drive to the ballon station for a ride. Elisse said nothing to me but had arranged for the hotel to put my charger in an envelope,drive it to the tiny local airport and fly it to the Seronona airport in the Serengeti!!! Whilst I was up up and ballooning over the river, he drove to get it!! How about that!! My first class Guide and a first class travelled charger!!!? And nobody asked me for a penny, no postage no flight ticket….they asked for nothing!!!