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"After the rediculously easy riding on the gravel, John and I started feeling smug: we can do this - what's to worry!"
We swaggered into Maun, well before the trucks, high on life on the long road and ready for some more action.
Once the group caught up - we set off to find a place to overnight. A gorgeous lodge a few kilometers out of town, presents itself: the prospect of a hot shower almost dizzying!
We pulled up, outside a six foot high wooden gate - and when it swings open to welcome us, I feel my heart sink: where the 'driveway' is supposed to be, is just a... OCEAN of thick, slippery sand.
Our first sand in Africa. In a bloody driveway, about a mile long!
Shit. Fancy coming all the way to Africa, and then coming unstuck in someone's driveway, forgodsake!
(... read rest here... sorry didn't want to repeat work already done on my website...)
We swaggered into Maun, well before the trucks, high on life on the long road and ready for some more action.
Once the group caught up - we set off to find a place to overnight. A gorgeous lodge a few kilometers out of town, presents itself: the prospect of a hot shower almost dizzying!
We pulled up, outside a six foot high wooden gate - and when it swings open to welcome us, I feel my heart sink: where the 'driveway' is supposed to be, is just a... OCEAN of thick, slippery sand.
Our first sand in Africa. In a bloody driveway, about a mile long!
Shit. Fancy coming all the way to Africa, and then coming unstuck in someone's driveway, forgodsake!
(... read rest here... sorry didn't want to repeat work already done on my website...)
