Tuesday 29th July- After the storm

This was quite a storm which affected a lot of places around Larnogol. In Caussad it looked like a typhoon had hit apparently. Our campsite had a tree fall over and many branched fell off trees. At least three campers were seriously affected by water and about 7 families left the following morning. The home made caravan across the road obviously leaked water like a sieve as they family were seen with lots of cloths, going in to the van and then wringing oiut the cloths for at least half an hour-shame.

The weather started to improve during the day and in the evening it was quite warm again but no further sign of rain or storms. We had a pleasant and quiet evening reading and watching the world go by and also spent some time looking at the route we need to take over the next couple of days.

We are going to see our friends David and Lorraine in a small village about 40 minutes from here and will spend the afternoon and have a BBQ in the evening which we are very much looking forward to.

Michael is of to South Africa on 1^st of August and will spend most of his holiday? working with the South African medical organisations either in the hospital or on the road and perhaps even in a helicopter.

This promises to be a great trip for him and we hope that he really enjoys it but at the same time we are also aware that Johannesburg is not the safest place in the world today

Tomorrow we will start packing up the awning, this should take a couple of hours if we take it slowly. The rest of the caravan packing can wait till Thursday morning