Heh heh, what a night. Heard the strangest sounds , difficult to describe. There was this beep beep beeping sound, which I thought was a car alarm or something. Turned out to be some bushcat (no, not lion or any of the big kitties) in the tree above our tent. Looked it up in the animal encyclopaedia, could only be 2 types... but I’d be hard pressed to produce their scientific names at time of writing. J I’m gonna switch my camera to video to try and capture some of the kaleidoscope. Makes for crazy dreams though.
It was my turn to make coffee, so up I get, bowl some water, the rest of the camp is already in motion by 07:00. No fried stuff, just cereal today. Two tents are already being broken down, chairs back in backs, tables finding their way into storage slots. Water boiled, made Java. Bought some local flavour at a shop 2 days earlier, not too bad. Meanwhile, Annelie packed up the sleeping bags and cleared up the tent. Grabbed some cereal and got to work with the breakdown. Back on the road at around 08:00, heading to Lusaka. This was my first opportunity to type up some stuff on the laptop while the wife drives. A bit of a test really, since I usually get way motion sick, but it was totally fine.
Lusaka is the capital city of Zambia and looks every bit the part. All the westernised buildings you’d expect, and some South African shops where plentiful. And... busy! So damn busy. People everywhere, cars and taxi cutting you off, swerving across the road. Hawkers in the middle of it all trying to sell you everything from heated in car mugs to t-shirts and lighters. It took us longer than expected to get out of the thick of it. We stopped at a big shopping centre to restock with some supplies. We will be responsible for the food this evening, so we’ll just do a straight bbq with some braai broodtjies (toasted sandwiches, but the like you must taste to believe how freakin good it is!). End up spending around 873 000 Kwacha (Qwachja), that’s about 70 quid / R1250. We bought a lot though, more than enough to feed 8 people for 2 nights. We hit the road again after a refuelling stop, during which the group got pretty split up, due to traffic and some stations not accepting credit cards or petrol cards. Thank goodness we have the 2 way radios in the cars.
We’ve ended up at a camp that’s way off the map. Once I get the freaking GPS logger online I could tell you! Or rather, SHOW you :). I’m try and MacGyver a solution with another XP netbook we have here, although it’s been a tech support nightmare in itself.
I’m gonna sign off now, it’s 16:15, we’re in a beautiful place next to a dam, the sun will set in about 2 hours... and this nice, golden glow is around everything. This is the Golden Hour in photo speak, so I’m going to take advantage of this light.
[G & A], out
She’s an extraordinary girl
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