Onward to Botswana

I can’t believe this is our last night in South Africa. We’re heading to Botswana tomorrow morning! Our checklist:

• The usual vehicle documents, passports, etc.
• Canned goods and lots of water
• Satellite phone for emergencies 
• Scorpion light
• Pepper spray for tires (discourages lions from chewing your tires)
• Air horn (encourages lions to go away in the morning so that you can exit the camper)
• Spotlight, headlamps, motion detector lights (all for obvious reasons)
• Toilet (the inside bucket because you never want to step outside for a wee after dark)

We’re spending our last night here in Joburg and, like everyone, we’ve been glued to the news, trying to figure out what’s happening with borders and the new covid variant. It looks like we should be able to get into Botswana and then head to the Kalahari without a problem, but we’ll just have to see how everything goes once we get to the border. 

We’ll be without internet access for most of December, but we’ll post updates whenever and wherever we can.

More soon!