Not to be out-done

The next picture should explain it all.After a short drive. This happened.

The Land Rover began to overheat again every 5 km's. Praise the Lord the Cameron was close by to tow us the 500km to Tsumeb. Where we were able to be helped by a fantastic guy Frank from Excutive Auto +264 81 127 5469.
Along story short; When the Land Rover went in for the engine overhaul. Much of what was charged for was not done or supplied and at huge cost.

The result was we had to get a new head and valves & gasket. The radiator was serviced and repaired. All which was supposed to have been done during the overhaul.
But we are driving again and the clock just rolled over to 400-000km's

Much needed holiday :-)

October saw the arrival of our anual holiday. Of which we are very often guilty of not taking. Very often we find ourselves with so much to do and can't quite see our way clear to leave and and take a break.

Clearly this is a mistake! We have just returned from our holiday and we both needed it so very much.

We were blessed this year to be able to have Dawn's dad with us on holiday. Wow! at 80 years old he is such an adventourous man.

The holiday started with a bit of a low point, seeing as we were both very tired and frayed at the ends. The Land Rover decided that it would leak a whole bunch of oil from the engine. That took 5 days "squatting" at our very good friends Meryl & Hendrik just out side of Chipinge. It was quite a thing to get 2 oil seals for the front of the engine. So after stripping and rebuilding the front of the engine 4 times. We got it fixed.

So away we went. Through Zimbabwe out at Plumtree and we stayed over at a 4x4 rest camp outside Francis Town. We left for Maun and stayed over a nice place called Crocadile Camp. We then left for Chobe north of Maun. What a dissapointment :-( It was so dry and sand so thick and not a single animal to be seen and no place to stay over, they were all full even for camping.

After a very hot day in the car we crossed into Namibia and stayed in Katima Mulilo ate the Protea Hotel camping site on the Zambezi. That was just great!

The next day we set off for the Kwando River in the Caprivi and went to Nambwa camp for a few days. Boy it's wild and you are in nature for real.

Kwando was so peaceful and such a good time to see the wonders of God's creation. But one evening we were blessed with a visitor in our camp. Just 8 meters away.