I love it when a plan comes together and then some glitch comes along and spoils the euphoria. I decided to change one of my tyres for the spare and have all the tools ready, but think before I take off the wheel I should unlock the spare cover and get the spare offloaded, horror of horrors the key is not on my key ring or a back up key ring. You all, I am sure, have a hoard of keys that you do not have a home for so you keep them just in case, three hours later with no joy I greet Denise returning from her art lesson with "I have good news and bad news what do you want first? Denise says give me the bad news, I tell her I have looked high and low tried some +/-50 keys to unlock the spare wheel cover to no avail, to which she retorts so what is the good news and I respond with "we did not get a puncture in at least 10 000kms"
Off we go to Toyota and they tell me all they will do is go to a locksmith, they have no keys or a skeleton key so our next call is to the local locksmith and they tell me no problem we will pick the lock, an hour later he is still picking, then he finally gives up and tells me he is only an apprentice I must come back next Tuesday and see the real lock picker.
Get back from playing golf today and Denise says have you tried the keys in the drawer, which I had and recall telling her so yesterday, she rummages in the desk drawer and gives three keys and tells me to humour her and try them again, I try the first of the three keys and voila it fits, now I have to put up with her comments like "I am the Guru, Finder, Fixer and Oracle, what would you do without me" stories, but to be honest I am relieved as, if I had not wanted to change a wheel, the key sitting in a drawer in Knysna would not help me if I got a puncture driving up or down Van Zyl's pass in Namibia. Alls well that ends well and I bow low to the Oracle.
I then pop into the locksmith to tell him all is well and have a couple more of the keys cut, he says there is more to the story, he said "yesterday he saw my white Prado car parked out front and thought I had left it there for them to pick the lock so that they do" a lady walks out of a neigbouring shop and asks him "what is he doing to her car" he tells her and she said well she had not asked for it, but she does have a problem with her lock so he got an extra sale.
FNB was supposed to phone me today to collect my Pula, I think they must have driven to Botswana for the currency as I have heard nothing one week after placing my order.
I am going to post a couple of photos of our Botswana visit that we took on our 2013 Africa Safari to Kenya and back, this time we are hoping to see a lot more of this wonderful country, if we are not victims of zenophobia, I see on 4x4 Community web site that some travellers from South Africa have been given a bad time at the borders and at roadblocks.
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| Sable Antelope outside Chobe Game Reserve |
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Ha! Ha! said the Hadeda to the spotted cat I am not afraid of you.
This is a bit of a cheat as this was in South Luwangwa in Zambia. |
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| Africa has the greatest sunrises and sunsets, Botswana no exception |
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| Elephant board meeting at Elephant Sands they are almost at touching distance. |
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| I asked Denise to stand next to this one to give you a better idea of its size, she declined, spoil sport! |
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| A beautiful Kudu in Chobe |
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| Who said elephants do not lie down we saw a few having a snooze and we believed the myth and thought they were dead, until they were urged by the matriarc to get up and move on |
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| Waterbuck in Chobe |
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