The 800km Drive

This morning everyone was up at 5:30am, we had breakfast early with a couple of extra strong coffees and then packed up our tents. Today is moving day and we have a huge drive ahead of us.
Pieter said ideally he’d like to be packed and ready to leave by 8am, but by 7:30am we were already on the road.
We had a choice of driving a direct 800km drive to our next destination or stopping at 1 of 2 camping lodges Pieter already knew. We decided to go for the whole drive and every couple of hours Pieter would stop and check that we were ok and asked if we wanted to carry on.
Apart from the towns we passed through there was absolutely nothing except a long straight road and I do mean long. Once we got away from all civilisation there was nothing but green fields and the odd small bush for about 300km. It was the most boring road, and drive ever. To top it off there is no radio in the car, and despite us checking before leaving the UK, there is also no real way of charging anything like phones or batteries. If we have electric we do have an extension lead but last night we had no power and Pieter said we could charge stuff in the car. However the car only has one working usb and there’s 5 of us. I’m beginning to realise that Pieter is a fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy, that likes to drink a lot and smoke dope, I wouldn’t say he’s disorganised but this is definitely his trip and we are just along for the ride.
We drove and drove, through small towns stopping if we needed to stretch our legs or needed the toilet and then went on again and to make things worse the outside temperature reached a whopping 41°c .11 solid hours of driving, Pieter is a machine when it comes to the road, and eventually we ended up at our destination at 6:30pm.Leggi altro