So close you can almost taste it

Place: Clanwilliam – in South Africa!

Tunes: Pritzker Military library podcasts. Iron Maiden.

Today was hot, boring, exhausting, and hot. After about 600km of this forty plus degree torture, we managed to find a hotel in the ghost town of Clanwilliam. This place is much further into South Africa than we planned, but when the going is good, you keep on going. From here there is only 200km to Cape town! The Cape is getting closer and closer. So close that you can almost taste it.

We saw some better scenery today also, such as mountains and some curves and corners that come together with said mountains. The only animals worth mentioning were these little rodents running across the road for no apparent reason. I guess they are just as bored as we are and are playing a game of chicken of some sort.

Getting across to South Africa was very easy with no nonsense or bullshit on the borders.

The hotel in Clanwilliam looks very nice and everything is as it should – in theory. At least the Antilope steaks were good. The staff seem to be a bit confused where you can charge things on the room and how you can pay. The hotel, the bar and the restaurant appear to be separate businesses with different systems.

The hiace team (Pasia and Peter) is following us but we have already won the first medal – first into South Africa. They will stay in Spingbok and will have a very long ride tomorrow to meet us in Stellenbosh.