This is the final short video from the trip – the triumphant finale! As an aside, any doubt that at least one person peripherally associated with SurfingAfrica was musically talented should be put to rest by the soundtrack of this video.
After a 9 hour day, including the 4th puncture on Namibian roads in 5 days, we arrived in Paarl, 50km East of Cape Town, on Saturday evening, where we’re kindly being put up by Dave and Vicky and their two lovely kids.
On Sunday, we took a jaunt down to Cape Augilhas, the southern most point of Africa, and the symbolic end-point of our trip.
Ben and Finn are to be sold to a couple in Zambia to start new lives as rental vehicles. We’re spending a few days relaxing with Adrian and Leanne, and Dave and Vicky, and sorting out 101 logistical things to end a trip like this (buying suitcases, shipping home 100kg of tools and equipment, buying new tyres, valeting the trucks…).
All the images from this diary are available to view in a Picasa web album, and all the videos are on my youtube page – feel free to browse. We will post a couple more videos and, once we’ve had time to settle in back home, we will post some concluding comments and thoughts about the trip.
For now, it’s enough to say that it has been probably the most rewarding experience of our lives, that we are delighted and chuffed to bits to have made it. For those reading this who are thinking of or planning similar trips, go for it. It’s easier than you think once you’re on the road.
