Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Namibia Road Trip: Day One
Tuesday 3rd April - 586.9km
Our holiday started by leaving home in Hout Bay and driving to pick up Heikki from the University. We left from home at just after 2pm and so were fully on our way at about 3pm, driving North along N7 towards Namibia.
The drive wasn't too hard, just quite long for the first day. We slept, watched DVDs and read a bit to pass the time. Family friend, Tepo, had lent us his family's portable DVD player which turned out to be a valuable addition throughout the week.
We were treated to a beautiful, lingering sunset that seemed to last forever, and was followed by an amazing, and at some times, quite violent, thunderstorm above the mountains to the East. It was spitting out lightning at a rate of about 15 times per minute. Set to a background of Coldplay playing on the iPod, it was a beautiful end to the day.
We drove for about 6 hours in total and finally reached a small motel and caravan park just outside the town of Springbok, just over 100km South of the Namibian border. It was nothing special - a motel is a motel after all - but it did us well and we had a good night's sleep.
Our holiday started by leaving home in Hout Bay and driving to pick up Heikki from the University. We left from home at just after 2pm and so were fully on our way at about 3pm, driving North along N7 towards Namibia.
The drive wasn't too hard, just quite long for the first day. We slept, watched DVDs and read a bit to pass the time. Family friend, Tepo, had lent us his family's portable DVD player which turned out to be a valuable addition throughout the week.
We were treated to a beautiful, lingering sunset that seemed to last forever, and was followed by an amazing, and at some times, quite violent, thunderstorm above the mountains to the East. It was spitting out lightning at a rate of about 15 times per minute. Set to a background of Coldplay playing on the iPod, it was a beautiful end to the day.
We drove for about 6 hours in total and finally reached a small motel and caravan park just outside the town of Springbok, just over 100km South of the Namibian border. It was nothing special - a motel is a motel after all - but it did us well and we had a good night's sleep.
Dan | 
09:52 
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