lorrywaydown
Vince & Jac's little get away
Category: Uncategorized
Zimbabwe, You meet the nicest people
With some trepidation, we set out early in the morning for the border crossing from Botswana to Zimbabwe at the Ramokgwebane/Plumtree Border Post. Why some trepidation? Well, Britain really isn’t a favourite of Robert Mugabe, and we are carrying our…
Read MoreBotswana, tyres, elephants, and bugs
On our last post I mentioned that we had wrecked a tyre, so the plan was that we were going to find a local tyre repair place in the small town of Kasane and get them to swap that wheel…
Read MoreBotswana, out into the Sands of Chobe
From Drotsky’s Camp in Western Botswana, the only choice was the tarmac road to Maun, there is no other way across the Okavango Delta if you have four wheels. This gave us time to think about how things can change…
Read MoreAlong the Caprivi, back, into Botswana, onions and floods.
Travelling in Africa can do some funny things to your mind, obsessions start to form, sometimes on the most mundane subjects. Take onions for example, we have taken for granted that fresh onions are always readily available, and all the…
Read MoreOff we go again, Caprivi Strip
We left the mining town of Tsumeb, and headed the relatively short distance to “Roy’s Rest Camp”, en-route we diverted off the main route to visit the Hoba Meteorite. This is the largest meteorite that has ever been discovered on…
Read MoreA quick trip home
We have just had a very hectic but also enjoyable 19 days back in England. During this time we tried to see as many family and friends as possible, but obviously we were unable to see everybody. We would like…
Read MoreHas anyone seen this guy? Christian Velten
He was last heard from in the South Western Malian town of Kita, in March 2003, but there was a confirmed sighting of him in the Mali capital city of Bamako in April 2003. I don’t know Chris but his…
Read MoreHanging about a bit in Swakopmund
The last post on lorry way down was done by James and Nicky once they returned to the UK. I’m not going to go over that whole 11 days again, but there were a few things that were either “forgotten”…
Read MoreAnother Dentist(s) visits Africa!
1700 Miles in the company of Vinnie, Jac and the Col K. A grand tour of Namibia with its sights, animals and highlights. A huge 4×4 with a tent on the top. To camp or to stay in a lodge?…
Read MoreBoring stuff about the truck zzzzzzzzzzz
I don’t usually put stuff about the performance of Colonel K on the blog, but I spent ages typing out the following to post on the forum of http://www.theoverlander.org only to find that the site has been out of action…
Read More
lorrywaydown 