Inhasorro to Juliasdale

One of the things that didn't go so well so far is connecting to the Internet. I bought a sim card and air time in Moz but just didn't get it to connect in spite of a call to Customer Care. Now that we are in Juliasdale with Patrick and Pixie Hallowes (yes, the Hallowes are all over the continent) we are able to catch up.

We left Inhassoro just as the sun made it's glorious appearance. Wow!The trip as far as the junction with the Beira corridor was good. This photo is of the bridge across the Save River. It's really impressive.

No road works, lots of people along the way and interesting sights. I just love to see how the people live and wonder at their ability to make a living from available resources. There is obviously a system of marketing the resources. People line up bags of stuff like coconuts, reed grass and cashew nuts outside their homes and we surmised that trucks collect them in exchange for goods or cash - not sure about that part. Around the homesteads there is plenty of small scale farming happening and there are many fruit trees. Distances are very far and resources limited but the people are enterprising.

We didn't come across a single road block. The road from Beira to Mutare becomes steeper and there are far more people walking on the sides of the road. Constant con-conurbation is the pattern. But the people are careful and walk on the correct side of the road. Again there is produce for sale and lots of schools. It wasn't quite as litter free as further south.

The movement through the border post went well and then we realised we had to find our way to Patrick's unaided as we didn't have the local sim card and my roaming just didn't work for some reason. However Mark had printed out a Google Earth shot and finding our way down the steep track to Patrick and Pixie's was easy. It was a lovely surprise to see the Summer Rayne is here as well so we get to see Mark's youngest niece as well.

Thank you Lord for safe traveling, for wonderful people we have encountered along the way and lovely resting place at Juliasdale.