Do you remember reading about our border crossing into Lesotho and the stressful experience our bus driver had being ridiculed by the police office? If not, go back to Day 7 and refresh yourself, it is worth it when you hear this story. So this is a long looooooong story made short.
Ok so we've spent how many weeks together now ...3? Relationships are pretty well established and we are all tight like family, including Owen who has made a nice place for himself amongst our group. Well Mark our leader told us the other night at dinner that our van driver Owen had lied about having renewed his van driving license and was driving our group illegally throughout the country.
Well all be ..... Doesn't that seem odd since Owen swore up and down the hills that he had his license renewed and could get his paper work faxed over after that little run in with the cops? He straight out lied. He told Mark weeks ago that he was able to get it taken care of, but probably got so scared at the border that he stuck his leg down his throat and now it finally caught up with him and he's choking.
Ok, well with all that as it is, the driver of the van company had been in close conversation with Mark trying to work out a new driver for the duration of our trip. According to Mark, the owner was extremely apologetic and just wanted to make things right. So this morning our new driver arrived who was going to take us across the border this afternoon and just let Owen arrive as a passenger until he could be picked up.
Ready for the funny part yet? Cause I definitely think you'll like this one ...
OUR NEW DRIVER DOESN'T HAVE A CURRENT LICENSE EITHER.
Funny isn't it?! :) So it is 9:43 and we are now racing through the country straight to the border of Lesotho and South Africa so we can beat any rush of people coming home for the weekend trying to get over the border as well. If Owen (who I might add is driving us now with the new driver riding shot gun) gets pulled over in Lesotho and asked for his license, it is likely that he will be arrested. However, in South Africa his most critical issue would be a fine. This is getting a little creepy now honestly.
So our entire drive so far has been scoping the upcoming roads ahead with hawk eyes to ensure that we avoid police. Of course, as we already faced, we ran into a huge road block on the only road we can take to get out of the area. Tensions got high as we got closer because there were close to a hundred people if I had to guess all over the sides of the road walking around. I immediately started to think that this was another police road block that wad going to land Owen in shackles. As we got closer, there just seemed to be even more people and tons of cars on the sides of the road. Thank God as it turned out to be nothing more than an accident and with no police as of yet. I am very sorry to see the accident and pray that everyone is alright, but thank God there were no cops.
We just passed the border into South Africa with no problems, we'll see how the rest of this goes ... wish us luck.
Ok so everything went fine today. No issues with anybody getting arrested. Thank God :) We are currently in Harrismith which is nice because it is a lot cleaner of a place than Roma which I like. These views are from a park we drove through this afternoon. It was beautiful!
This evening we went to Ocean Basket and had some killer seafood and sushi which was a blast. I went with Elizabeth, Erica, Genevieve, Johnand Saul. We had a great time chowin down together and drinking some great wine. Yay to good food and wine:)
It's funny as I sit here and re read my entry. I also add that I feel like am right on that cusp of missing Don and being back home.
- With all my thanks :)
Location:Roma to Harrismith
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