Today we’re heading back to Jenny’s place. We’ve reached the end of our journey on the lake but as a recourse for the delayed start we can at least spend more time on board. We manage to squeeze in one last swim and lunch before we reach. Bryan cooked up the last bit of food we have, some lamb cubes, into a very tasty stew which we enjoy with leftover rice.
Around 17:00 we dock back at Jenny’s harbour and begin the arduous task of unloading both ourselves and our gear. Quick photo-op with the crew and we say our thank you’s and goodbyes. Everything is trekked back up to the house and Annelie and I get to repacking slightly so that we can re-arrange the Bullet for the last leg of our journey. Tomorrow we will be heading into Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city and then through to the airport to drop Marietta off. We’ll also be saying our final farewells to Fanie, Hannelise, Dirk and Marieke, since Fanie will be catching a lift to Lusaka to pick up the Colt, (which they managed to fix up at Moonia’s Uber-Workshoppe, for the low-low price of R16 000! But they couldn’t drive it to the rendezvous point, because, doh!, he forgot to hand them the Carnet for the vehicle. So when they’re stopped (and they WILL be stopped) the cops will think the car stolen. Not a biggie, just a little inconvenient since they have to travel back into Zambia.
Dirk and Marieke will be heading straight on to the border at Beitbridge, and then on to family and friends. So it will be Mattie, myself and Annelie travelling together to South Africa, then hit a day or two in Sun City (very nice resort in SA) after which Mattie too will be going his own way, leaving us the Bullet to drive home.
Tonight though we have a last chance to reminisce about good times, bad times and just plain awesome times!
I’d drink to that.
Highlights: Hard to say. Guess I’m looking forward to getting back home, but it’s a bittersweet since it means the tour is almost over.
[G & A], out
Papa was a gamblin’ man
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