It begins

Today we leave the comfort of clean sheets, swimming pool, free food and ironed underpants (care of Lydia, one of the house staff). To farewell us on our journey, Cape Town has started with a scorcher of a day and the neighbourhood water main has burst leaving Dani unshowered. Our plan after travelling Africa on scooters was shot down became buying a car in SA and selling in Kenya. This is rather tricky so we flagged that and lowered ourselves to buying a car, travelling as far as Malawi and selling it back in SA. After checking out some dodgy cars we flagged that idea and managed to get a great deal on hiring a car to drive around SA, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia before returning it to SA. Our "car" (Kia Soul) will cause great embarrassment in the camp grounds but at least we're covered if it breaks down in the middle of the desert.

So anyway, we're off to the Cederburg mountains which are about 300km's north for our first night and on Sunday will push on to the boarder between Namibia and South Africa in our faux SUV (photos to come). The Orange River is in flood so fingers crossed we make it across the boarder.

Cape Town has been great. Dad and Libby have been fantastic in showing us around, and trusting us in driving their cars. Too many highlights of this beautiful city (photos to come) but before I'm dragged away one little scare from the other night. Here's the back ground.... The house we are in is surrounded by an electric fence and sensors. The house it self has cages on the doors and windows that get locked at night. We are on a 2 acre block and there are few neighbours near by and there are armed security patrols. It's not actually that scary until you've just finished dinner, it's dark and the alarm suddenly goes off. Dani and I really didn't know what to do so I rushed around locking doors while Dad and Libby open them to wander outside and see what's happening. Long story short, I had a huge adrenaline rush from a gecko who had shorted the electric fence causing bolts of lightning to spark through it's crispy body. This is so far our experience of South Africa's obsession with security.