After all the walking yesterday, Dan and I woke up late to find everyone but the maids gone. They told us that Cecelia had just popped out for a while and would be back soon, so we busied ourselves with showering, packing up the bags and packing the car. We had just finished packing the car when Cecelia arrived home, perfect timing. I made sure we had done the last check and we managed to say thank you and goodbye to Andy and grab a muffin before we set off on our way to Bulawayo. Thankfully the road was fairly busy so each police check point we passed we simply waved at them and drove by, regardless of if they were busy or were wanting us to stop. Most of the time I would just clock to see if they had a car or not, and if they didn't we would just drive on and smile :D
After around 3 hours of driving we became pretty desperate for fuel as the light had just come on, but as we drove through town everywhere seemed to have no diesel! We eventually turned the car around to go to the normal looking petrol station we had seen on our way into town but were to late to pull into the first time. Here we put $40 of fuel in the car and continued back into town to find some lunch for Jenny. We had a look at a few of the places to eat and they all looked pretty average, pizza and fried chicken seemed to be all on offer. Once we had a short look around we decided to get a Nandos wrap and get back on the road. We were making pretty good time to Harare and were looking at arriving just after 16:00.
When we got to Bulawayo we found David Mouat's, an old friend of Dad's, house without too much trouble but arrived to find nobody home and the gate locked. After a few moments wondering what we should do, the maid who had just finished work, walked up to us from the road and she offered to phone Dave for us. The maid let us in through the gate and Dave said he would be home from work a little after 19:00. He also told us how to open the gate to bring the car in, and asked us to get dinner sorted. I pulled out some onions and potatoes and Dan set to work cutting the skins off the butternut squash. The potatoes turned out to be a really nice, cut into thin round section and boiled for a few minutes and then grilled in the oven with the onions and a little butter to coat them!
We had pulled three T-bone steaks from the freezer which were defrosted by the time Dave came home at 7:30pm and we had them with the potatoes, butternut squash mash and salad. It was a lovely dinner, and it was great to finally meet Dave after hearing so much about him from Dad. We chatted for a long while, hearing some great stories about the travels that Dave has done, and we eventually all went to bed at half 10, knakkered after our long day of driving and Dave's long day of work.
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