Day 16: 17th February 2013

“Christ’s love creates unity in the midst of diversity.” RBC

Rolled out of bed at about 5am this morning and boiled water for our usual cup of coffee and for the road later in the day. Awesome to drive off with the sunrise behind you. The grass looked like golden wheat in the morning sun.

Well had an eventful day. You never enjoy them but they do make memories. We stopped in Otjiwarongo to draw some money and get some eggs at the Spar. While I was in the shops some local thieves pulled the classic move on John and Dave. They distracted them by saying that there is something wrong under the trailer and then managed to steal Dave’s cell phone. What a hassle as Dave had his phone on International roaming so these guys could potentially run up a bill of thousands of Rands. We quickly had to make contact with his son in South Africa and get him to call Vodacom and stop the sim. A real downer!!!!

The rest of the trip went well, just seemed very long today. We only arrived in Mariental at 6pm. So it was about a 12 hours days drive. From midday on it became really hot again. I was also stopped outside Windhoek at a regular police check point and the Policeman wanted to fine me because I have a crack in the front window. Well no kidding every single Zambian car has a crack somewhere in the front window. Any way after explaining to him that it was Sunday he just waved us on. may need to get another one as it is quite a crack but it has been like that for about 5 years. It is just that when I had the last one replaced within a month a stone hit and cracked this one so what is the point?

At least things have cooled down a bit tonight. I am looking so forward to a good sleep. Felt like the day was extremely long and hot!

“Thank you Lord that no passports or money were stolen. We do pray that you will bring conviction upon the thief and that out of this seemingly bad incident good will come.”

7800Km down and 1200Km to go.