Bontle's first Holiday in RSA, Part I

I'm back in the village now after an amazing ten day holiday, my first here in South Africa... and I'm not really sure how to describe my experience. How can you sum up ten days of amazingness? But then again, do we ever really recount our life experiences ' accurately', or in such a way that does what we've seen and learned justice?...

Like any good trek across South Africa, it started with a rented bright red Volkswagen Chico, an amazing little bitch of a car that we all grew very fond of and even cried over when she left us to haul around another group of obnoxious American travellers (obnoxious American travellers who probably never even came close to loving her like we did). Ah, the good ol' times with Chico.... Being obnoxious American travellers, we ( David, Laura, Christopher, and myself) are quite unfamiliar with the crazy rest of the world's way of driving manual. Since the boys had each driven manual once, they volunteered to do the driving while Laura and I chewed on Zanex tablets in the back to calm our nerves ( That, of course, is a joke...) So we spent about the first twenty minutes after renting Chico trying to pull out of the rental store's driveway... amazingly, right as the rental car employees came clawing at the doors to kick us out, and telling us what obnoxious Americans we all were, the boys managed to get the car in first and speed away! Shortly after we sped away, we remembered to drive on the right (that is, the left) side of the road... something we had to remember several times along our road trip :) After a good hour of practice, we finally hit the road and began our epic journey...