We woke up to another awesome day. Took a bit of a slower morning as I was absolutely finished. I finally managed to pay the account for Nahoon as the comms here are shocking. I had to go over the road to try for comms, and that also did not work, so I finally paid in cash. Not the ideal situation as we are now R400 short for our emergency fund, but not a problem.
We said our good byes and headed out. Had to drop off a thank you note for Geraldine and Kevin. Said our good bye and we promised to be back one day. I’m hoping to spend some time with Kevin at his excavation site and a few other places that he maintains. I really can’t wait.
We headed out and we landed up on the wrong freeway heading a completely wrong direction. After about 1 hour of fiddling around, I managed to kick start my old phone. We got comms off my new phone and found the correct road to head down to Port Elizabeth.
It was really an uneventful drive. I really struggled with the boredom of this drive. We decided to play a game that I used to call general knowledge at school. We changed it slightly as I could not really choose a letter so we started at the beginning of the alphabet. We had to choose a colour, an animal, food, a girl’s name and a boy’s name. This really pushed our brains but it did do the job on getting us through the quiet parts of this drive.
Mom called Rob and Shirley and asked if they would like to see us. We offered to come to them or for them to come to us. They agreed to come to us. Mom was really happy to see her again.
As we were driving we came across a bridge and we pulled off for a quick stop, to stretch legs and to take a breather. We saw some great birds under the bridge. The problem is that this really delayed us quite a bit. But anyhow, not much we can do about that.
We carried on with our game and talking nonsense. Saw lots of wind turbines. These machines are enormous. Hard to imagine how they actually work. A true engineering feat.
Mom called Rob and Shirley to say that we were running late and we will call them when we get to Willows. They were not too phased as they were still waiting for Pick n Pay deliver food. They live in a retirement village and they do not allow any visitors. The management even recommend that the residents don’t go to do their own shopping. It is suggested that they have their shopping delivered. So far their village has been COVID clear. Really amazing how people can stay healthy when you are not permitted to do certain things. I really think that if we can all do this, then maybe we can get rid of COVID.
We arrived at one of my favourite resorts … The Willows Caravan Park in Port Elizabeth. This is a huge caravan park and I highly recommend this resort to anyone who wants to travel. For me I believe that they could be a 5 * resort, but that is my opinion. You need to try them out.
We pulled into Willows around 4 ish. Rob and Shirley arrived around 4:30ish. At one point they were going to have dinner with us, but then they said that Rob did not want to drive home in the dark, so they left us around 6:30. By the time they left us, we were frozen. No clouds or wind, but the ground was really so wet with dew, that the cold just came up through your feet and froze your body to the core. We just made fish cakes for dinner with not much else. Very nice, but no vegies, but I am not complaining. We decided not to go for a shower because we were so cold. We crawled into bed and headed off to dream land.
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