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W.P.'s Farm (Herzog)
Steph:
This morning was lovely again. We're
still at the farm and enjoying every minute of it. Since it's monday,
WP had actual work to do, especially with the clean up after the
fire. Johan also needed to take a few hours to work. This was
perfectly fine with us, since we had some things to take care of.
Erik read and played cards. He took most of the day to figure out the
rules of a card game my oma taught us last year. I spent my time
cleaning my bike chain and fiixng our handle bar tape. Our injuries
from the night before had us sore all day. Erik's toe was
surprisingly ok, while the bruise on the side of his leg was getting
bigger and more purple. I had hit my elbow pretty hard but my worst
battle wound was, by far, my wrist. By the end of the day I finally
discovered that the pain was most likely a sprain. I could barely
move my hand up and down and definitely could not grab anything with
my right hand. I wasn't too worried about it though and the day ended
on a very lovely note with Johan's Oxtail dinner. Delicious. It's
going to be hard leaving these lovely people. I'm already feeling
really sad about it. We've both grown so fond of them and really feel
like we've gotten to know them well this past weekend. They already
promised to come visit us in Phoenix in February of 2014. They had
better do it.
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13 November
23 Miles
Herzog Farm – Botswana Border
Steph:
Today we are actually leaving Herzog
Farm. BUT! Since we only have a little over 20 miles to the border,
we can afford to sleep in, have breakfast and then go. After saying
good-bye to Johan, WP drove us through more of his farm to the tar
road. He dropped us off at a rest stop and sent us on our way with
some candy and biltong. Totally delicious. We spent about 2 hours at
the rest stop because it was still incredibly hot. Around 3pm we
headed out under very comfortable cloud cover. My wrist really
bothered me though. I couldn't put any weight on it and any sort of
movement was not fun. The ride was very nice. Relaxing and
relatively fast. We spent the whole time talking about super random
things and by 4:30pm we were at the border. We stayed at a rest camp
that was very clean and very cheap and went to bed after a beautiful
sunset.
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| Downhill to Botswana! |
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14 November
49 Miles
Botswana Border – Tsootsha (Bush
Camp)
Steph:
Oi. Today was tough. We entered
Botswana at around 8am with no problems whatsoever. As promised, the
first animals we saw were donkeys on the side of the road. They were
pretty funny and very cute. Soon, the fence on the side of the road
disappeared as well! Woo! Bush camping! The only problem was that the
wind picked up substantially and really slowed us down. What also
slowed us down was me. :( My wrist had been hurting all day. I put my
weight on my ther arm, which then screwed up my shoulder and then
screwed up my back. I was a hot mess. On top of that, after taking
our first dose of the malaria pills, I immediatly became nauseous and
sick. I lost a lot of water. But we had to move on to find a suitable
camping spot. I ate some of our candy and we started riding again.
It's funny that a lollipop made it all better. After about 10 more
miles, we pulled off the side of the road and set up camp. With the
exception of all the ant hills, and the uneven ground, it turned out
to be ok. Dinner tasted like heaven.
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| We did see a herd of wildebeest! Finally! Woo! |
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