Han's Farm to Windhoek. 248km.

Had a delicious  meal last night of Orynx , and slept in a bed which was most welcomed after sleeping for 12 days in my safari  tent and the lovely feather mattress I have.
The comfort through me for a loop this morning, as I often wake up not knowing where the hell I am for a few seconds, it's weird. Being in a luxury tent is real weird for me as that is not my style, and that's not by choice. It was proably 5:30 am and I washed up and scurried up for breakfast with the rest of the German hunter's.
They buggered off hunting and I lazed around for awhile and then bid Gertrude farewell and left on my bike.
I nixed the asphalt road to Windhoek  and took the lovely dirt road D1967 to Otjibingwe and then D1953 to C28.

Was a fabulous ride, bike road just beautifully,  the road had pebbles and hadn't been graded for awhile and the bike kinda floated on the road. I encountered a Zebra, which decided to run on the road for about 2 km in front of me and then he met up with 2 of his mates and they then took off into the bush.
The dirt route was a 100km fit her than the tar but so well worth it and  the C28 was an absolute  blast and only passed about 4 vehicles on the whole route. Pulled in at the BMW dealer , cause am having my 20000km service done and they will look after the bike while I am gone in the 4x4 for 18 days.

Since leaving Cape Town I have done 4500km of which 4000 have been on dirt.
The sand is my worst enemy, can somewhat do the thin medium sand , but the thick shit is no fun cause I know I am gonna come second. Then picking up that beast fully loaded takes every ounce of muscle I don't have and in 36 deg C, it's a test everytime. Once you're up and off again ,it's just a memory.

So now I have to change blogs to royinnamibia.blogspot.com  for my 4x4 trip.

WARMQUILLE - OPUWO - BRANDBERG DAY 11 - 624KM

Day 11      642km. 

This morning when I left it was all clouded over and a great temperature for riding all the way to a Opuwo 140 km, animals kept appearing, a Springbok ran alonside me doing about 60 km for about 1 km and then backed off and ran behind me. Then I came across eight ostriches running ahead of me on the road and they finally left and ran into the bushes further along I came across this troop of baboons which crossed right in front of my bike, unfortunately I didn't hit any of them but sadly I did hit a bird that flew into my front forks and that's the second bird that I have hit. 
From Opuwo I took G3709 to C35 where I stopped for water and in all this area all the Himba's live, a few happened to be at the shop I visited and  they were kind enough to have their photos taken,of course for a price. Ended up stopping at the camp gate at Etosha looking for Keith , but nowhere to be found, my yogurt and milk are gone was looking so forward to that cold yogurt and a plate of pro nutro. Don't ever trust a KTM guy they will leave you just for the yogurt.

Stopped at Khorixas for petrol and went to camp site, still no Keith, decided to press on to Uis for the night. Arrived at white lady camp at 5 o'clock only to notice that I had a flat back tire. Got it over to the workshop we ended up taking the tube In and Out 3 times ,YouTube issues and finished at 9:15 p.m. just beat. The worst part of it was that it was a screw in my tire and not all the beating the tires had taken on these gnarly dirt roads. Had no time to make supper but did have time to have an ice cold beer at the bar, I then drove off to Camp pitched my tent showered and crashed. 

TWYFELFONTEIN - SESFONTEIN DAY 10 - 261KM

Day 10: Twyfelfontein  - Sesfontein: 261km

5 a.m. start, 8 a.m. to find the desert elephants with Keith in his car. We separated should never do that.! I found elephant Footprints in the Sand road and fresh dung. But the road down me kissing this and 3 times. Theven sand was so thick and the middlemannetjie gets you every time. I was a little tired and hot after third pick up and sweating and panting like a dog. Roder back alongside the road in the veld, cause I have nothing left if I had to pick it up again. I tried to find the ellies  but turn back and headed for Palmwag and Sesfontein on the main dirt road. There 18 km down the road are 2 bulls, so I drove into the veld of course and parked off and watch them for 30 minutes and I should keep an eye on me. So was all worth it in the end, I guess. They are very scarce so was really lucky once again.

Got to Palmwag, fueld up and headed North and the colours of getting redder and more mountainous  Got to Sesfontein and Keith  was at none of the camps, so I backtracked 30 km to Khowarib camp but no banana. I ended up at Ongoro community camp ( R70 ) where I am the only one, and am not surprised. I ran out of money and now only had R40 for fuel, cause there was no ARMS here and they only do cash! The camp is 6km off the main road and it amongst the villagers and Himba's Keith  has my water, yoghurt milk in his fridge. Was looking forward to my ProNutro and yoghurt for breakfast, but, oh well probably good for my Banting diet. Just hoping for a rustigge sleep. I hear The villagers down on the Hillside, preparing  for who knows what? Hopefully not a big black pot to put me in!

SWAKOPMUND - TWYFELFONTEIN DAY 8 - 325KM

Day 8: Swakopmund - Twyfelfontein Ababa Husband Camp: 325km

Once again I bloody woke up at 5:30 a.m., but finally had a good night's sleep. Had no milk so still haven't had breakfast on the trip. Keith ate some crap he puts yoghurt and swears by it, but you cannot believe everything those KTM guys say. Went up the coast to Henties Bay which was 70 km North on a salt Road. Approaching Henties we hit a Blizzard, which coming from Montana is nothing new, except this was ferociously  hot wind blowing sand across the road at 30-40 kmph and I was basically getting sand blasted and baked all at once. Stopped in at a lovely restaurant had a brunch, coffee, juice, eggs, bacon, toast and Chips for R 35 ($2).  Left Henties and the windustry was relentless for about another hour as we headed NE to Vis on a good gravel road, if you were on a BMW. Refueled at Vis and had a1/2 litre of water then onwards but then Keith'so Pajero had a puncture which we changed,well mostly me. Onwards again  and then came across some foreigners car that she had just rolled, they have been taken away and were okay, so we were told. They just lost it over corrected and there it lay on its side!

Alongside the road got a tire repair place, so we pulled in and there in the middle of nowhere the guy fixed the tire. It was 34 Degrees C and I asked a guy, who was wearing longs, at what temp does he wear shorts. He said it was not hot enough yet and it would need to get to 20 degrees hotter and he may consider it!. Tire fixed and onto Twyfelfontein  which was quite a knarly  road if you were in a Pajero  or the likes. On a BMW it was a breeze except for the goats and ostrich. Thankfully they had a written warning for Elephants, so I was prepared for that at least. Found a campsite on the river bank, well it hasn'the flowed in years butility nonetheless  it's on the river bank. Too hot to eat, not like I've missed too many meals lately, but rehydrated with a few Windhoek Lagers on the dry river bank! From Henties to Vis was flat desert, nothing, then from Vis North, mountains begin to appear and amazing rock formations began rising out of the desert.