Tuesday 23 February
Lockdown Day 334
We left Greenfire at about 12.30pm and it's only an hours drive to Namibrand Family Hideout. This is a wonderfully remote self catering cottage in the desert.
We had wanted to stay here because we had been here 20 years ago with a group of friends on one of our previous trips to Namibia. I remembered the dune boarding and a funny wine story too long to retell here. Neil and I were living in the UK at the time so we had flown into Windhoek where Tommy picked us up. On our day of departure the rest of the group left really early to begin driving back to South Africa and we had arranged an Avis car and driver to come from Windhoek to drive us back to the airport - that's about 5 hours each way. It was any eerie experience sitting alone on the verandah for about four hours hoping the driver would indeed turn up. There's still no cell phone signal or WiFi out here. Our driver did eventually arrive. We made our flight.
Another memory is of us devising a treasure hunt with clues around the property for future visitors to enjoy. Today I found the old guest book from 20 years ago on the bookshelf and sure enough instructions and the first clue; all rhyming are in there along with our names and greetings.
We had a great braai, just the two of us this time. It's still super quiet and remote but we do have our trusty Cruiser to drive ourselves out.
I was up in time for sunrise and caught an amazing shadow of a lamp on a wall.
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