2 more sleeps....

Looks like we are heading out on wednessday now. As I write this Rohan is up to his neck in grime learning how to service the car with his dad's mechanic :o).

Insurance is now sorted, tomorrow we are getting the last of our Jabs and last Friday we started on our course of Mefliam(larium generic) for Malaria. No hallucinations yet so hold thumbs. Just means no deep diving on the trip...pretty bleak about that as we will be going through some amazing places in Tanzania and Mozambique. But rather safe than sorry I guess.

We spent the weekend doing a test run of the packing. The good news was everything fits....the bad is that I just hope it does not take 4 hours to pack every time ;o). We are thinking of taking it to a weighbridge to check the weight...not looking fwd to the ferry in Zambia hehehe!! Also found some good hiding spots for the cash...our biggest worry at the moment. There is nowhere to easily fit a safe...so lets just hope luck is on our side.

Had a bit of a nightmare with tires last week. We landed up bucking and going with the BFG's( BF Goodridge's), was not tooo bad, but rather safe than sorry. Spoke to some peeps last night who used BFG's and did simular milage to what we are about to do and never got one flat. A guys travelling with them with tires with about 50% tread got about 3...

The plan from now, is to head to JHB and get our Ugandan visas as you cant get them at the border and we dont feel like getting them in Tanzania. Then head to Thabazimbi so see my dad for a night or so, then head to the Bots border. My dad is about 200km from there so plan to get there at 8 when it opens...

We will spend about 2 days getting through bots going straight into Zambia. Spend some time in Livingston, then head west to Liuwa Plains and Kafue. From there head back to Lusaka, buy our comesa(3rd Party Insurance document so you dont get nabbed at every border) and then down to Lower Zambezi National Park. From there we will head to South Luangwa, then into Malawi.
We are planning the above route to take 3 weeks, but will see.

Anyway, till we have more news...

Almost on the way...

Well, we are now back very sunny SA. Cant really say how it feels as we have been running around like headless chickens trying to get our little beast sorted for his long voyage north.

It looked like we were just about there, when today we were suddenly reminded that we are back africa. There has been a national tire strike and we need 2 tires and nowhere seems to have stock..NICE!! Hopefully we will come right, we have a few days to kill.
We are looking to leave Sat 25 August....but watch this space...