STUCK AT FNB for 2 hours (howcanwenothelpyou.com); STUCK AT BOARDER – another 3 hours; and EVENTUALLY REALLY STUCK WITH BIKE MECHANICS across Beitbridge!!
A bit on how the day started, Thendo decided to get up at 5H30am and cause a racket with his bike, he likes to fix things that are not broken! Woke up the entire neighborhood fixing Lord knows what? I think that set the tone for the day.
Charlie joined us for a scrumptious breakfast whilst we were waiting for the banks to open to get Forex.
That process took 3 hours!! to buy $1500 USD!! We were given some excuse about the vault taking a while to open. Whatever…..I think they were calling Interpol.
We only got to Leave Polokwane at 11H00 to cross the border and ride to Harare. As our luck would have it, border gate formalities on the Zim side took 3 hours in the 42 degrees heat in our riding gear in a hall with no aircon. Wonder why we need the bloody borders anyway.
We once again realised that we won’t reach Harare and settled for Masvingo, halfway to Harare, Fully kitted ready and rearing to go Thendo’s Bike stalled and refused to start on the Zim entrance. We knew what the problem was, it happened before just after crossing into Mozambique on a separate trip. (with his fixing I wonder why he does not fix his battery!!!)
Anyway here we are at the Holiday Inn in Beitbridge and are coerced to watch a Beauty Contest! A Beauty Contest! They still have those?? We are not KEEN!!
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