Day 16 & 17: Kang to Kuruman to Niewoudtville

THIS IS THE LAST POST FOLKS!
Si: Well Kang to McCarthy's rest border post was more beasts on the road to contend with than I care to describe, plus a couple of sleepy truck drivers.  The border was quick and easy (besides a few sleepy border police and an absent custom's lady, we were the only ones present).  The gate guard looked in the fridge and asked me if I had any rhino horn (of course not, but sleeping in a rooftop tent - read fornication dangerous - I had another horn problem to contend with).
The road in Botswana was tarred all the way to the border post - imagine our dismay when we were greeted with nearly 200km of gravel on the SA side (read, how to keep McCarthy's Rest border post quiet).

Lyn: I have a theory called "Revenge of the cloven-hoofed!" If you are really bad in this life, then you come back as a cloven-hoofed animal in Botswana. Then - the only bit of fun you have is to lurk alongside the road until a vehicle comes along and you then stroll, ever-so-slowly, into the middle of the road so that the driver has either a heart-attack, slows down, swerves, stops, swears, curses, hoots, shouts (or all of the above)! The cloven-hoofed then strolls off the road to wait for the next vehicle to come along and repeats the process. That is all the fun they have - and they sure make the most of it!

Si: Kuruman was, well Kuruman.  Bring back the past, big time.  Cheesey music, cheesey furniture & carpets from the Ice Age, but very pleasant people aand good steak too (minute steak for breakfast anyone?!) Upington was also not memorable but we did stop for coffee and found Lyn a desk exactly like the one she used at school (nightmares!!)

We now sit in a lovely guest cottage on Niewoudtville's main street and as it is so quiet, the owners have invited us to the local potjiekos competion at the "hangar" where we can buy a potjie and langarm all at the same time - whooppeedo!!
OK, this isn't the last post as I will have to relate the evenings events of the main event tonight.  Later.