The Journal
03 November - The Moroccan House, Pretoria I wasn’t sure if I would write a journal on this trip. I packed the keyboard just in case but thought that maybe I wouldn’t bother. Then last night here we were at The Moroccan House talking about previous trips and where and when we had been. Neither of us had positive recall, so I had to refer back to the journal for confirmation. So here goes, even if nobody else ever reads it we will always have it for when we are old and grey and need to reminisce. We both started off this trip with awful colds so the long flight was not very comfortable. On arrival in Jo’burg we were missing a piece of luggage. It was still in Paris and would not arrive until the following day. The good news was that when we picked up the hire vehicle it was a Toyota Hi-Lux stretch cab with a bolted on top box on the back. That is excellent and exactly what we had hoped for, we have the joy of a high clearance 4 X 4 and the convenience of a large truck where we can ...