Hi Gang,
OK, we got through Beit Bridge. Everyone told us it would be horrific, bags of corruption, road blocks, burnt down buildings, riots and cops taking us for money at every turn.
This is how it went.
We slid out of SA like shit through a goose.
The Zim border is a proper African border with lots of pieces of paper, stamps etc but we got there at 0800 on a mid week day and were out by 1100. People around us in the
I enjoy were friendly and helpful and so were the Zim border officials.
We just smiled at everyone and got through quite easily. It cost us $US 55 each for the visas plus small change for sundries.
We rode about four hours to Bulawayo (stayed at a great place called Limerick Cottage).
There must have been twenty or thirty road blocks and NONE of them asked for anything. Most waved us through, one or two asked after the bike and our trip.
Bulawayo to Vic Falls was the same, except one road block out of twenty or so asked for our license.
Again, bags of smiles and How are you's at every road block got us through.
Lastly, even the tolls were cool. Bikes pay nothing, they just take your registration and smile you through.
We didn't once pay one person one penny!
This was this week, mid August, 2016.