{"id":14947,"date":"2016-04-01T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2016-04-01T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:45:06","slug":"day-25082-ghanzi-sehithwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14947","title":{"rendered":"Day 25082 Ghanzi to Sehithwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ridden 29 Mar 2016<\/p>\n

After yesterdays rest day were the checkout supervisor at Choppies kindly sorted out my Orange SIM card for me, although I felt\u00a0a bit bad about giving Orange\u00a0400 Pula so I could buy 2 gigs of data. The retail shop wages are 4.32 an hour so it’s nearly the equivalent of 100 hours work!<\/p>\n

At 8.15 I was part of the queue at Barclays to try and get my card back, the place opened at 8.30 but not much action happened – I went to every till\/information window where I was promised the card back in an hour or two! Eventually I located the manager and shamed him into opening up the ATM quicker. So at 8.54 I eventually was on my way.<\/p>\n

Today was either going to be very short, camping at El Fari after only 70km or going the whole way to a guest house at 200+Km \u00a0I was making good progress so opted for the latter.<\/p>\n

\"Donkey<\/a>
Donkey derby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made good time even having a race with a donkey at one point. However, I had left to late so by the time I arrived in\u00a0Sehithwa it was pitch black with no street lighting. the 24hr Shell garage didn’t have much idea except pointing back to the few houses I past. Eventually at a junction a shop had lights on, to my surprise when I asked them about the lodge they said the owner was right behind me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting late<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So of we went me frantically pedalling to keep up with his truck! \u00a0Monlek Lodge was OK but some confusion over a meal eventually a young lad bought over a tray of stuff which certainly helped to fill the empty space created by 121 miles of biking. A bit of a modern record distance for me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Strava says I did\u00a0121.1mi\u00a0<\/a>Distance in\u00a09:21:35\u00a0Moving Time\u00a0140ft of climbing. Although it omits the 900 feet or so of descent.<\/p>\n

The pics are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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