Sunday, November 14, 2010
The Road Trip Recap (Finally)
So it's only been a month since we started the road trip... I guess now would be as good a time as any to get started updating about it. We thought we'd be able to upload it all in Florence last week, but between the slow internet at the hotel, and the massive amount of time that I spent eating pizza, pasta, and gelato, well you get the point. So we've got to do all of the uploading from Zim which means that it will have to come in small parts.
The Trip:
Jen's mom, Janet, came to visit us, and we spent a week on the road traveling a good chunk of the country. 8 days of traveling, and it looked something like this:
Day 1 - Drove from Harare to Bulawayo. About 6 hours of driving, and we stopped in Bulawayo only really as a halfway point. There isn't exactly alot going on there... We stayed at the Bulawayo Club, which goes back to old Rhodesia, and it still has rules about where women are allowed, and what they're allowed to wear. My favorite part was the betting books that they have kept for almost 70 years, nice light reading while having a drink at the (most of the time) gentlemen only bar. Jen and Janet were allowed in on that night, and we bumped into some other HIS teachers there as well.
Day 2 - Bulwayo to Hwange National Park. Only about 4 hours of driving, but one of those hours was nice off-road driving. More on Hwange later. On a minor note, Jen did get arrested on the way, only had to pay a 10 fine for missing a lug nut.
Day 3 - Hwange
Day 4 - Hwange to Victoria Falls. Another 4 hours. Stopped at the Painted Dog Conservation. Got into our hotel, registered for the activities, slept (as much as you can in 100 degree heat).
Day 5 - Vic Falls. Rafting, Helicopter ride, jumped off the gorge, sunset cruise on the river. More on that later.
Day 6 - Vic Falls to Matopos. About 7 hours, actually a little more with the number of times we had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting cattle, goats, and random people walking on the highway.
Day 7 - Matopos. More on that later.
Day 8 - Matopos back home to Harare.
The Trip:
Jen's mom, Janet, came to visit us, and we spent a week on the road traveling a good chunk of the country. 8 days of traveling, and it looked something like this:
Day 1 - Drove from Harare to Bulawayo. About 6 hours of driving, and we stopped in Bulawayo only really as a halfway point. There isn't exactly alot going on there... We stayed at the Bulawayo Club, which goes back to old Rhodesia, and it still has rules about where women are allowed, and what they're allowed to wear. My favorite part was the betting books that they have kept for almost 70 years, nice light reading while having a drink at the (most of the time) gentlemen only bar. Jen and Janet were allowed in on that night, and we bumped into some other HIS teachers there as well.
Day 2 - Bulwayo to Hwange National Park. Only about 4 hours of driving, but one of those hours was nice off-road driving. More on Hwange later. On a minor note, Jen did get arrested on the way, only had to pay a 10 fine for missing a lug nut.
Day 3 - Hwange
Day 4 - Hwange to Victoria Falls. Another 4 hours. Stopped at the Painted Dog Conservation. Got into our hotel, registered for the activities, slept (as much as you can in 100 degree heat).
Day 5 - Vic Falls. Rafting, Helicopter ride, jumped off the gorge, sunset cruise on the river. More on that later.
Day 6 - Vic Falls to Matopos. About 7 hours, actually a little more with the number of times we had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting cattle, goats, and random people walking on the highway.
Day 7 - Matopos. More on that later.
Day 8 - Matopos back home to Harare.
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