Does This Sound Like a Vacation to You?

I haven't even left yet, and I am already exhausted. Just pondering the sheer amount of travel we are going to be doing has me dragging. After flying 20 hours to get there, we are going to get up in the morning and travel eight hours by bus back up to the northern part of Tanzania where we will be "safariing." Is that a word? Incidentally, we will have already landed in this area as our first point of entry the night before. However, KLM is being snotty and telling us that we cannot disembark there. Pew on KLM. I have been eagerly anticipating this trip for nine whole months now, but  a vacation it is not. Imagine yourself leaving your already hectic life, transporting yourself across the world one Thursday afternoon, awakening Saturday morning in the capital city of an African country, and then hopping on a bus to go meet a jeep that will ferry you around while viewing wild animals that you usually only see on television. Then, keeping up that pace for two hectic weeks while simultaneously attempting to navigate the terrain and the transportation system , plus  trying to fend of mosquitoes and other agents of disease every day. Does this sound like fun to you? No? I cannot imagine why not! Yet, it's a slice of heaven to me. I will come back exhausted, but I will also come back happy.