After a flurry of emails to Cross Country, we decide that the best & most economical option is to repatriate Mad One ourselves, after all its only 5000km’s.
So, after a final schnapps in the car park, Uli handed us a mineral water bottle filled with his precious stock and a set of silver schnapps ‘glasses’ for the journey home, we set off with rather teary eyes.
Well our weary behinds can attest to it, 5000km’s is a looooooooooong way. We managed the trip back to Johannesburg in 7 days, giving us plenty of time to collect all the stats. We covered the 4612 k’s in 70hrs 20 min giving us an average speed of 65.6km/h, not exactly Autobahn style driving we agree, but we also had to cross 4 African border posts, negotiate what felt like a billion pot holes, trucks, goats, cows, speed humps, people, detours and police stops. In Tanzania there is a police stop every 10km, the majority wave you through, but a Land Cruiser wrapped in Uli’s amazing German Bait (Bahmann International Trading) tape attracts a lot of attention.
So, after a final schnapps in the car park, Uli handed us a mineral water bottle filled with his precious stock and a set of silver schnapps ‘glasses’ for the journey home, we set off with rather teary eyes.
Well our weary behinds can attest to it, 5000km’s is a looooooooooong way. We managed the trip back to Johannesburg in 7 days, giving us plenty of time to collect all the stats. We covered the 4612 k’s in 70hrs 20 min giving us an average speed of 65.6km/h, not exactly Autobahn style driving we agree, but we also had to cross 4 African border posts, negotiate what felt like a billion pot holes, trucks, goats, cows, speed humps, people, detours and police stops. In Tanzania there is a police stop every 10km, the majority wave you through, but a Land Cruiser wrapped in Uli’s amazing German Bait (Bahmann International Trading) tape attracts a lot of attention.
So, we were stopped plenty. Mostly the police were just curious, expressed sympathy & wished us a safe journey, but every so often we had to produce the police report, proof that Mad One was road worthy, the owner’s passport or what ever document took their fancy.
We would like to say a huge thank you to all our friends & family for the constant stream of sms’s and calls of support, they really helped us not to feel too sorry for ourselves. We now join you guys as armchair travellers.
We would like to say a huge thank you to all our friends & family for the constant stream of sms’s and calls of support, they really helped us not to feel too sorry for ourselves. We now join you guys as armchair travellers.
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