Camping in style.

We arrived in Johannesburg at 10:00am and were picked up by Enver from South Africa 4x4 Rental whom we had rented a fully outfitted truck with roof top tents. We went on to the rental place to get the truck and receive a quick orientation. We met Darren who helped with the orientation, completed the paperwork and we were on our way. These two guys were great and very helpful. I should put a word in here, Michelle, while reviewing the tents asked for a second sleeping bag for each of us and an extra pillow. I declined the pillow thinking I wouldn't need it. I did not know that the pillows provided would be slightly thinner than a kleenex. I could have used 10 extra pillows. But the extra sleeping bags definitely were necessary.

Enver, Michelle and Darren

Right hand drive vehicle and driving on the left side of the road took some getting used to but it wasn't so bad. What I could NOT get used to was having the turn signal stalk on the right side of the steering column which put the windshield washer stalk on the left. By my estimation I turned on the windshield wipers to make a lane change about 1 million times. Embarrassing. By about the fifth day I was pretty happy with myself  that by noon I hadn't mistakenly turned on the windshield wipers when I meant to use the turn signal. By about 12:30 habit took over again and I was flashing my wipers at everyone again.

Our first night was at Indabushe Rest camp about 250 km outside of Johannesburg. We had picked up some firewood (or "brai hout" in Afrikaans) and some food at a grocery store and were quite ready to start camping. 

Two rooftop tents. We could get these packed up in about 15 minutes. Everything else we needed was in the back of the truck. BTW ladders, when you have to go pee at 2am, are a terrible idea.

Indabushe was beautiful. The people were friendly and like almost every place we stopped we wished we could stay longer. Every rest stop we stayed at had ablution blocks with showers, cleaning facilities and scullerys for doing dishes. Everything, everywhere was neat and tidy just like almost everything in South Africa.