Hakuna Matata

What a wonderful phrase, Hakuna MAtata, Aint no passing craze, It means no worries for the rest of your days! – Timone and Pumba, The Lion King. Well, we saw a Pumba today. He wasn’t a very big warthog, but a real one none-the-less, with big tusks and all. Running along in the scrub next to the road.

12 Hours 17 minutes, 1045km and 3 police stops to check licenses, 2pee stops 1 fuel stop, 1 border crossing and a partridge in a pear tree later we have made it. Today was long, not terribly difficult as such but just ridiculously long. For the entirety of the day i turned 3 intersections and i was hanging out for tiny kink’s in the never ending road just for something to do. As an Australian i thought i knew what long straight roads were like, wrong! There was a section today which was just under 200k’s long without a single undulation, kink, bend, bump, hole, wind, rise, dip, bridge or tunnel. Just straight, scrub’s and bushland on either side. Tomorrow would be a good day for another rest day… But not long now, only a 600, 800, 600 and 350km day remains between us and Table Mountain Bay Hotel.

We also saw an Elephant!!! He was just chilling on his own, right next to the road amongst some trees (he was probably about to push one over). And he has massive long tusks! It was awesome! Seeing him made the massively boring drive seem totally Irrelephant (see what i did there? Ahahaha).

Patrick and Christine in the Karmann Ghai had some problems this morning. I feel for them a bit, they have been having a constant stream of minor/medium issues that force them to be late in all the time (after midnight sometimes). But they keep on trooping, and this morning everything was looking good, they were about to start on time and slog out today with ease….. but that wasn’t to be. Patrick opened the boot of his Vee Dub and saw petrol leaking out of his carby. Me and dad come over to help investigate as Patrick isn’t a big Karmann (see what i did there? Car-man! Hahaha i’m on fire!) and it looks like overnight the carby float in the bowl didn’t seat correctly, and it was gravity dripping all night from the fuel tank. We wipe up all the excess fuel and tell him to start it, but it goes Whurrrp and it doesn’t turn over. Because the Vee Dub’s have a downdraft carby, situated above the flat-4 engine, the dripping fuel has filled his pistons and the liquid compression won’t let it turn over. He ended up getting towed to a local mechanics place for someone to take his plugs out to drain the engine and change the oil for him. But he still isn’t at the hotel yet, hopefully see him at breakfast.

Still no problems for us 😀

James