Anton Turner, a dear friend and safari guide and manager at Lukula Selous Camp, was tragically killed on Friday, October 30 while on a filming expedition with BBC in Selous. Please read Brownell Travel Advisor Vicki Upchurch’s note about Anton below.
This spring a darling young man from Tanzania came to stay in our guest house. He arrived in the U.S. without a credit card (believed in the cash system) so he could not rent a car or, in some cases, a hotel room. He borrowed a car from a mutual friend in Boulder and drove to the mountains. He and his father had been hunters but realized that education was the way to preserve Africa and founded the Selous Project. He had just been featured in Elite Traveler when he arrived here and was so surprised and pleased when I showed him the issue.
He gave me a DVD of what he was doing, which I made copies of and sent to the offices, and he was doing great work. He had a vision, and a plan, and was starting to make it come together. Keeping in touch with him this year has been so much fun as his enthusiasm for what he was doing was infectious. He was seeing his dream become reality and he was about to become a first time father.
Even though his life has been cut short, his dream will live on.
This makes the saying “live your life as if every day was your last” even more poignant.
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