We are now in our final days of preperation, passports are back and all necessary visas are in place. A little more about the VW, I bought it on ebay for this trip, it was claimed to be completely restored, well it still needed a lot of work. It now has a new motor thanks to Gem VW, all new steering and suspension, "air conditioning" and drives like an old VW. We trailered the van from home in Loreto to Los Angeles for the new motor, a 200 mile test drive and then delivered it for shipping from L.A. to Cape town. If you want to track the van it is on www.evergreen-shipping.us container # LTIU 3057800. Four more days and we head out, driving to LA then flying.

There is a good blog on a trip two couples made from Cape Town to Cairo at www.pikipiki.co.za