20 June, Monday paradise to Lilongwe
We wake up with gusts of wind pulling at the tent – a storm is
brewing over the lake and the sky changes to a deep blue-brown color. A few
raindrops fell, and then all is over. We pack and strap, say goodbye to Richard
and ‘my’ beautiful paradise.
On our way in to Lilongwe we try to find a Shoprite or grocery
store, but everything is closed until we realize it is Sunday. Our camp site is
an interesting place: Mabuya camp: a popular stop for overland trucks, groups,
campers and over landers. The place is full with an overland group, a tour group
that just arrived from Scotland, and several other groups. It is not totally our
scene, but it is a safe place for the car and us.
The owners of the camp have a humongous, beautiful Rhodesian
Ridgeback, also called Sammy and that meant car-arrest for our Sammie – should
Sammy decide to not like our Sammie he might bite him in half. Sammy got sniff
of Sammie and from that moment guarded the ‘prisoner’ with fervor – no ways
Sammie could come out of the car without Sammy knowing. We tried to take him
out for a quick pee-pee, but were not successful and Sammy hovered like a lion
over our Sammie until we could quickly whisk Sammie back into the car!
Hugo and Andrej manage to smuggle him to their tent, but Sammy
got whiff of his whereabouts and extended his guard territory. The nights are
definitely turning chillier – nice though, not uncomfortable.
We wake up with gusts of wind pulling at the tent – a storm is
brewing over the lake and the sky changes to a deep blue-brown color. A few
raindrops fell, and then all is over. We pack and strap, say goodbye to Richard
and ‘my’ beautiful paradise.
On our way in to Lilongwe we try to find a Shoprite or grocery
store, but everything is closed until we realize it is Sunday. Our camp site is
an interesting place: Mabuya camp: a popular stop for overland trucks, groups,
campers and over landers. The place is full with an overland group, a tour group
that just arrived from Scotland, and several other groups. It is not totally our
scene, but it is a safe place for the car and us.
The owners of the camp have a humongous, beautiful Rhodesian
Ridgeback, also called Sammy and that meant car-arrest for our Sammie – should
Sammy decide to not like our Sammie he might bite him in half. Sammy got sniff
of Sammie and from that moment guarded the ‘prisoner’ with fervor – no ways
Sammie could come out of the car without Sammy knowing. We tried to take him
out for a quick pee-pee, but were not successful and Sammy hovered like a lion
over our Sammie until we could quickly whisk Sammie back into the car!
Hugo and Andrej manage to smuggle him to their tent, but Sammy
got whiff of his whereabouts and extended his guard territory. The nights are
definitely turning chillier – nice though, not uncomfortable.
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