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Time to Move On

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Our Opel Zafira mini-van was delivered on time this morning, although the paperwork and rental details were grossly out of order. Renting cars can be a real challenge when you don’t know the type of car you will end up with. The agents start spewing out car name after car name as they take you through the different classes, all names and styles we have no clue about. What is a Toyota Condor? An Opel Zafira? Will that work? Who knows?!?!? In the end the one we chose worked out fine. We dropped the back two seats (three rows) and loaded one side with our backpacks and the other side with $300 worth of groceries, all requiring no refrigeration, for a week of meals.

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Some Down Time

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

As we mentioned a few days ago, we decided to move to a new backpacker since the last one was a little run down, dirty, dark and cold. What do you expect for very little money? Once we had the car we were able to strike out and look for another place to stay, which we did find. The center of the area that we would spend our time in Pretoria is a small suburb called Hatfield. This area has lots of restaurants, coffee shops (with WiFi access) and banks. The new backpacker is closer to Hatfield than the last, so we can walk.

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