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 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 [...]
Day 38 – And then there was blood We got up lazily to a cloudy day. We thought of going to the Victoria Falls with a taxi, but then decided against it. We folded the tent up and packed everything in. Just as we were about to leave at about 10:00, Hugo went to get [...]
We decided it is time to leave and managed to pack up everything before 10:00. For breakfast we heated up the leftover spaghetti from Saturday and the Cordon Blue from Sunday. We stopped in Katima Mulilo for fuel, for which we had to pay the full amount for the first time since Cape Town. We [...]
We were packed up by 10:00 again and drove the very straight B8 to Drop City (Katima Mulilo, the city were the Brudis will be dropped). Sam started getting Hangry (angry hungry), so we stopped in Kongola for lunch. The fuel station had general shop with a ‘bakery’. Caro bought a Russian and Chips, Hugo [...]
Caro’s alarm went off at 06:00, the horizon just started to colour over the Kavango. We packed up halfway before Hugo’s cousin, Riaan, arrived. He took us on a small speedboat on the Kavango river. We spotted the Hippos the we heard in the night, a fish eagle and various other birdlife. The water was [...]
