The final leg of our "arrival" journey is complete...but had the most adventure. The traditional road we used to use between Zambia and Namibia is in such need of repair now that it is impassable. So we needed to take the route through Botswana that included taking a ferry over the Chobe River. Taxis are not too hard to come by but finding a pair who can haul all our bags for a fair price was a bit more of a task. Taxi's can't cross the border over the ferry...and there was almost a mile of dusty no-man's-land between the Zambia and Botswana border posts we had to traverse across to get to the next taxi area. So 6 adults, 3 young kids, 18 bags, and a guitar went from crammed taxis to waiting for the walk-on ferry to making friends with the flatbed trailer aboard to carry our heavy bags thru no-man's-land (which by the way was only a 5 minute ride to make the deal and hurry and load them all on before he had to drive off) then waiting in the hot sun on the other side for another set of taxis from Botswana to our final destination of Katima Mulilo, Namibia. Today's leg of the journey took about 6 hours travelling thru 3 countries by both land and ferry. We are on true African time now but many, many small details worked out in our favor that could have otherwise gone wrong--praise God they did not and we arrived safely.
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