The best birthday present and leaving Namibia

So, Friday the 18th arrived in Katima mulilo. Grant treated me to coffee and muffins in bed, hung a colourful HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Grant: A real peach of a find in the local shoprite) sign across our tent and I opened pressies from home! Such a treat!! All the sms's and phone calls from home were amazing, thanks everyone- it was a great day!

We cycled into town and went for a cooldrink with the wooden-bicycle-packing-team, all the while awaiting the phonecall from Christof (the mechanic) that would determine if we would be leaving Namibia the next day. After a great chat and laughs at the Madese Catering Cafe (see below: the bossy Mhlungu is telling our waitress how to take the picture!), we searched for a new power cable for the laptop as the old one had packed in.. and then made our way back to Fish Eagles Nest.

We eventually spoke to Christoff and he said all was good to go, the part had arrived from Windhoek and therefore JHB, it had been fitted, Michael had been taken for a test-drive and we could come collect him at 5pm!! Really the very best birthday present! After we had collected our wheels, we went out to the Bezi Bar on the Zambezi river with Frik, Mart-Marie, Julianna, J.G, Fransel and some others. I was spoilt with more pressies and we had a great evening! Thanks guys!

Saturday dawned, we did some grocery shopping and were off!! We passed through the Namibia-Botswana border post and drove through the Chobe for 60km's (seeing a couple of Ellies on the way) and then into Zim (Via the Kazangula Border) to Vic Falls. (It was at this border crossing that we were asked for the

first time by a Zimbabwean Police Officer what we had brought him from South Africa. So using a line from a book I had just read I replied " Goodwill, lots of goodwill") We booked ourselves into the main campsite in town and enjoyed the camping vibe once again, having Mikey and all his luggage close by :-)