We initially thought to stay for two days at the falls, but after seeing the run-down facilities and being the only people and still seeing leaking oil we decided to head back to Kasama. We had breakfast and packed up by 10:30. We drove to the Kabwelume Falls only 5km away, but the road took [...]
We thought of staying another day, but also wanted to ‘test’ the new bearing and seals. Caro made French Toast and then we decided to go to the Lumangwe Falls. After settling our bill we left Kasama at 10:30. We missed the turn-off to Mporokoso, but decided to try the bottom road and look for [...]
We slept in our ground tent again, even though we had the MonkeyMobile with us, the one mattress deflated again through the night and at 05:00 in the morning Hugo shifted over to Caro’s mattress. At 06:00 Caro got up for a last dip in the Hot Spring. We quickly packed up and while Caro [...]
It’s already a week later as I’m writing this so a lot of the emotion has subsided a bit. Looking back we could have done a lot of things differently, but the way it evolved it put a lot of strain on us. On Day 51 and 52, I still tried to stay positive and [...]
We got up with the sound of loud hammering from the workshop, quickly bringing us back to the reality of our MonkeyMobile losing one of its legs and being next to the road all alone (hopefully still being there at all). We left the room at 08:00 and went for a walk to the camp [...]
We woke at 06:00 again and snoozed to 07:00, by 09:00 we were on the road again. For breakfast Hugo added sugar and milk to last nights’ leftover pap and Caro ate the Brinjals that she cooked on the fire after dinner. At Mpika we stopped to fill up and bought fresh buns at [...]
We set our alarm for 06:00 as we went to bed so early, but snoozed until 07:20. Caro got out first for another shower under the awesome shower-head (just the one shower on the woman’s side and a large modern square waterfall shower-head thing). After tea and breakfast we got on the road again. [...]
We got up when Mewin waked us with the two coffees and went down to have breakfast (which Mewin also sets out), with Francois. About an hour after he left for work we managed to get on the road. The 6 days at Francois really did us good, we felt ready for the road again [...]
Day 43-44: Lucky Bean Corner Hugo basically worked the whole time while Caro worked on UNISA assignments. In between we played with the 7 month old Jack Russel, Plex, and took afternoon naps. Day 45: Manda Hill We had a short work session before packing out the MonkeyMobile. For the first time we also took [...]
We packed up the tent for the last time in Livingstone and managed to leave by 09:00 after saying our goodbyes to the staff. Yesterday, we noticed the indicator lights stopped working again, but knew there was nothing we would be able to do. We thought we’d try our chances and look for some place [...]
