Solitaire

From Deadvlei, we continued our drive, stopping at a one-house town called Solitaire for toilets and to stretch our legs. It’s a crazy place with broken-down cars and petrol pumps around the grounds and an on-site bakery started by Percy Cross, aka Moose McGregor. The bakery is famous far and wide for its apple pie. Most of us tried it. It was still warm from the oven and tasted really good! Just as we were going to get back on the truck, we saw some strange-looking animals behaving just like meerkats. They turned out to be ground squirrels. They were happy to pose for us! 😊

While we were there, I bought a book written by Dutchman Ton van der Lee, who lived there for a while. I’ll look forward to reading his account of life in the Namibian wilderness.Read more