So, after spending a few days in Swakopmund, we started to head down to Sesriem and out to the Namib desert. Well, after being assured that Kwando had been fixed and that she should be able to make it all the way to Cape Town, what happened? Yeah, you know what happened.....right in the middle of nowhere, Namibia! 150 Kms from Swakopmund and 200 Kms from the next 'town,' which we later saw was just a gas stop. So, there we were, in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the guy to drive 150 Kms from Swakopmund. We knew we were most likely going to spend a llllooooonnnnngggggg time waiting.
So, what did we do? Well, it's amazing what you can do when you are bored. We played hot toilet roll, which is amazing like hot potato. We played musical chairs. We tanned. We play basketball.....or sort of. We played cards......but the creme de la creme was the desert Olympics! We had the shot put, javelin, discus, 60 meter hurdles, 120 meter hurdles, the standing long jump, the running long jump, and the triple jump. Sadly to say, I came in fourth, but I was the overall winner of the discus competition!
After spending the night camping on the side of the road, we were woken up at 5am to find out that Acacia finally got off their asses and sent us a new truck. We actually 'borrowed' the truck of a group headed from Cape Town to Nairobi, but only for two days as we then found out that we were going to get yet another truck! Apparently, Acacia thought it wasn't fair for us to steal the other groups truck, but they felt it was totally fair to stick us with a crappy truck that broke down a total of 9 times on the way from Nairobi! Thanks Acacia!
Until later......
Love, peace, and soul.
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