13 January - RAIN!

13 January

32 Miles

Kafue – Lusaka

Steph:

Oh my goodness! We almost died today! It started raining very violently about 10 minutes into the ride. And then the road disappeared. And it was uphill. And we were super slow. Needless to say, there are no pictures because our camera would not have survived. Since we're getting close to the capital, the traffic increased significantly. We lost our shoulder and the road was narrow so we were run off the road a few times because of the big trucks. About 10k from Lusaka, it was raining so hard that we could barely see anything. Cars couldn't see us either so we stopped at a Camp ground to take cover.

It was a crazy ride and by far the roughest rain we've been through. I got pretty nervous at a few points but I think overall we enjoyed ourselves :)

Erik:

Rain. No road. Rain. Mud. It poured. We rode super slow for as long as we could. When we got to Eureka Game Camp, we stopped to wait out the rain. We saw zebras, giraffe, and impala. We met a weird american who was "chasing a crook". But in no officail capacity. Aka, loser. After a nice burger and about an hour, the rain subsided a bit. So we rode on. We got into the city very quickly and a heart-pounding ride through round-abouts and busy streets. Nothing too harrowing, but it got our blood flowing.

We made it to to Yuyu and Gigi's at around 1pm. We looked and smelled like wet dogs. A nice hot shower and a change of clothes was very nice. They told us about how they met in Cape Verde while Gigi was there as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She's been in the foreign service ever since and they lived in Guinea Bissau for years in the jungle. Very cool couple. Very nice of them to let us stay here.

Only photo we took today. See the rain? That was our day :) Pretty fun