Glamorous Only in Retrospect: Oct 30th

October 30

Rehoboth – WINDHOEK!

57 Miles

We reached 1000 Miles today!!

Total Miles: 1005

Total Days: 22

Erik:

The road this morning was super busy. We had to jump off the road a few times to not get squashed.

A lot of hills... Well, not really. It was fine. And then we were in Windhoek!

Hooray!

Very cool city. Clean. It seems to have everything you'd need and is very modern. We found our couch-host Matthias' house and he came over from work to let us in. Very nice guy.

When he got home from work, he took us to a nice Portugese Restaurant for my birthday. I had Oryx. It was amazing. We happilly chatted the night away and went to bed a little past 10pm. Which is 2 hours later than we're used to.

So now I'm 26. I feel old and crippled. :P

Not a bad birthday at all.

Steph:

The ride today was lovely! I already said this but I love this scenery. It's beautiful. The weather was nice and cloudy which always makes colors pop out nicely. We had heard horror stories about the hills to Windhoek and I wasn't really in the mood to work hard. Haha! But it was fine. Much easier than the gps predicted.

We saw our first legit band of baboons today. It was sweet. We were coming down a hill and saw a large group of short animals crossing the street way down at the bottom of it. At first we thought they were just goats, but I wanted to see, so we pushed as fast as we could down the mountain. When we came to that spot however, I couldn't see anything. No goats, no sheep, nothing. All of a sudden though, we passed a bigger tree and I yelled "BABOONS!!!". I sqealed to a stop and we saw that the whole tree was full of them!! At least 15! 20 yards away! Then we looked to the side and there was one sitting on a fence post! Then we looked at the other side of the road and there were so many! Just walking around, waiting to cross the street! I had taken my camera out but by the time we noticed we were surrounded, Erik was frantically whispering to put it away and to go, we had to go. It was amazing. They really were everywhere. I think the total number in that area had to be at least 60 monkeys.

So cool :)