By Inge.
Today is the day, our first day of driving Simon and Femke have been looking forward to this. It rained heavily last night, but the morning starts off fairly dry. We pack our things and have breakfast in between.
By the time we leave, it starts raining harder and harder, so we decide to postpone the sticker moment for a while.
I drive the Landrover towards the reception to check out. That takes some getting used to, the contact on the left side, the gear shifting and the gigantic turning circle the car has.
By the time we ‘really’ start driving, it’s pouring, Simon bravely crawls into the T-Ford anyway, after about 30 km they decide to put the hood on for the first time this trip, because of the heavy rain. Of course, it doesn’t stop everything, but it does a little.
The T Ford also gets the full force of a truck that drives right past where there is a thick layer of water on the road. At one point we come across a tent where we have a cup of coffee, the children go for hot chocolate. It is certainly 15 degrees cooler than the past few days so that goes down well. They also have pancakes on the menu and decide to have a bite to eat right away.
Simon is completely soaked, it was going so hard that the rain came through his rain suit, he wants to get in the Landrover after lunch. Because the five of us do not fit in the Landrover I go in the T-Ford. We drive a bit inland towards a waterfall. It is a beautiful route, but we do not find the waterfall. We eventually end up at a host and hostess who have a mini campsite and some rooms. We are allowed to sleep in 2 of those rooms together. Simon goes to Dirk and Trudy’s room and Dirk-jan, me and the girls in the other room.
A delicious meal is cooked for us, we play a game and then dive into our beds. Today we drove 181 km
