Did i mention that yesterday evening we caught a magnificent sight of kilimanjaro. As the evening clouds lifted? That was very nice - its good to have seen it!
Add a big day of driving to that and we're more than halfway through tanzania! Tonight we're sleeping at TanSwiss resort, just on the close side of the mkumi game reserve. We had a nice dinner (boneless chicken mexicana for me, and calamari rings for my dad - both with too many chips) and spent a bit of time chatting with our neighbours Tony & Marga who are heading up to serengeti...and now bed.
Today we were waved through most of the police blocks, except for three. 1. "ok, give me 10 shillings" ... So we gave him a tiny bit of malawi money & moved on, then 2. A speed cop trapping with a lazer through a small town in a 50 zone, he said i was doing 65 which was too fast ...but the gun said 56 so he said it was close enough i could go (whew), and then 3. At a broken weigh bridge the coppers were checking out the trucks and i was fined 2000 shillings for a cracked mirror (from a close call with a truck from the other direction in December). Now i genuinely didnt have any shillings so i asked how much in dollars ... He was 'very nice' and he agreed on a very very favourable exchange rate that it was equivalent to around $5. That was the only fault he found with us... So i guess you win some & you lose some. Overall its been fine driving, the roads are getting better & better as we get more south so we're making more and more ground.
Tomorrow we'll get to mbeye (nearly 600km) do some shopping for food, and then into zambia for the final stretch.
Its going to be nice having the family with, and specially nice to have a lady's touch in the truck. Its also going to be great to be off he deadline of getting somewhere far in little time!
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