Day 1 out of SA

The first day was excellent, we had the farewell breakfast at the Doppio Zero and said our goodbyes... And onto the last few admin issues before we left SA. We got our medical supplies, back to jareds and onto Macro for some beer. Then the N1 to the Botwana border at Groberlersburg where we had the first mild encounter with African beurocracy. It was awesome, the reason was that I tried to declare my camera using the invoice. After wasting 30 min I ended up just declaring it without any docs. But all was well once we crossed the Limpopo and entered Botswana. Fists impressions of Botswana was clean, friendly, rich and big. We did our immigration bit, paid our road toll and were on our way.

We entered Botswana at 18:05 and the sun was slowly setting. The firsts stop was meant to be at Palapye, but that proved to be out of our range. Therefore we made a plan. We spotted a friendly looking guy waving us by at the the first foot and mouth disease control point. We pulled a U-turn and offered him beer for a place to camp. He gladly accepted, so there we were chilling on the side of the road, in front of the squirrel guarded tent, drinking our well deserved case of castle. Elias, the guard, joined in the festivities, hesitantly at first, but soon loosened up and told us all about his country, without any of us understanding a word. None of us ended up any wiser, however we did learn that Elias cannot handle his booze. At all.