Glamorous Only in Retrospect: 22 November

22 November

62 Miles

Sehithwa – Bush camp

Steph:

Today was beautiful! Besides puking up my malaria pill (again) this morning, I really liked today.

The weather was cloudy, overcast and cool. The road shrunk to a one lane. Just one lane. For two directions. Ahh! But it was a beautiful road! All crumbly on the edges and falling apart. And there were trees and shrubs and they were GREEN!! No more desert! It's gone! And the birds! There were birds chirping and calling just like in a jungle! I felt like I was in africa and was waiting for the elephants to come strolling by me. It was awesome. Beautiful!

Also, we had to stop at a "foot and mouth" disease check point (you have to get out of the car and step on this liquid thing and they spray around the car. It can apparently spread that way. Anyway, we stopped awkwardly on our bikes and waited for the 3 or 4 check point guys to come up to us. They did the regular "what the hell are you guys doing" look around thing. They asked what we were doing, we told them, and the main guy says, "from cape town? You rode these bicycles from cape town to here?". I said yes, he looks back down at the bikes and says, "I doubt it." He was dead serious. I told him, "no really, we did!" and he replied again, "no, i doubt it". It took another 5 minutes to convince him. He made a face and said, "I don't think I could bike down the street". They were funny and sweet.

Erik:

The scenery finally got nice. Seems there has been more rain this-a-way. Nothing too eventful going on. We had difficulty finding a spot to camp, but eventually found a place surrounded by bushes. There is elephant dung all around. A good sign?

We got in contact with Jeff from the Peace Corps in Gumare (just 30 miles away). He invited us to Thanksgiving in Maun with a bunch of other PCVolunteers. Back to Maun, so we hitch back tomorrow? Oh well! Anything for a party!