Where will you sleep tonight?

After a wonderful week spent in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, it’s time to head back home. I’m cutting it fine. It’s Friday morning and I’ve promised an old friend that I would be at his farewell lunch in Cape Town on Saturday. He’s moving to the Netherlands and I want to say goodbye properly. But that leaves me with just one day to drive 1 127 km from Twee Rivieren.

It’s a job that gets done one way, and one way only: Wind up the window and drive. The automatic Mahindra shifts gears and I can feel the bakkie accelerating. It’s a good feeling, after the past few days of slow sand driving on the Nossob 4x4 Eco Trail.

I notice a couple of men working with livestock in a kraal and I lift