Hul getroue vervoermiddel is 'n omgeboude trok wat hulle huis vir die volle tien maande geword het. Peter slaap links agter in sy kamer op die bak en Tessa 'n entjie dieper in aan die regterkant. Die trok is goed toegerus en vanoggend het ek 'n heerlike beker filterkoffie by Peter gekry.
Met die aansitslag probeer die trok Peter oortref met die hoeveelheid rook wat hy op die kant uitstoot, 'n regte Van Hunkstorie in Afrika.
Peter en Tessa het vanaf Holland Afrika op die moeilike wesroete aangedurf. Na 'n paar maande het hulle in Kaapstad aangekom. Peter beskryf dit as die groot hoogtepunt van hul toer tot dusver.
Dat hulle lief is vir Afrika sien mens dadelik aan die naam wat op die kant van die trok geverf is: www.beenafonafrica.nl (.) Hulle druk met die naam uit wat hulle voel: Been-af op Afrika. Die uitdrukking het hul doelbewus uit Afrikaans oorgeneem.
Peter kan nie ophou praat oor die gasvryheid wat hulle in Suid-Afrika beleef het nie. Sy grootste eet-indruk is 'n bierkiep, 'n hoender wat gebraai word op'n blikkie bier wat in die hoender se anatomie ingedruk is.
Dit was nie hul eerste besoek aan Suid-Afrika nie en beslis ook nie hul laaste nie.
Hulle gaan heel moontlik so 'n dag of twee agter my wees wanneer ek hier uit Nairobi vertrek. Ek sien regtig uit na nog 'n nag of twee se kuier met die twee wonderlike mense voordat ons paaie heel moontlik in Ethiopie gaan verdeel.
Goede reis Peter en Tessa!
Interesting fellow travelers
Peter van der Linden is a thin, stringy man, mostly with a nice smelling cigar in his mouth. Always nearby, is his only daughter, Tessa, an 18 year-old student that took a year off from school to accompany her father on this ten month journey through Africa. (Photo 1)
Their faithful transporter is a converted Bedford truck; it is their home for the full ten months. Peter sleeps to the left in his room on the back of the truck, and Tessa a little deeper in to the right. The truck is well equipped and this morning I got a delicious mug of filter coffee from Peter. (Photo 2)
At starting up, the truck tries to compete with Peter in the amount of smoke that it expels from the side, a real Van Hunk story in Africa.
Peter and Tessa travelled down Africa on the difficult west coast route. After a few months they reached Cape Town and Peter describes it as the highlight of their tour so far.
You can clearly see their love for Africa in the name that is painted on the side of the truck: www.beenafonafrica.nl (.) With this name they express their feelings: ‘Been-af op Afrika’ (In love with Africa). The expression was deliberately derived from Afrikaans.
Peter can’t stop talking about the hospitality that they experienced in South Africa. The ‘bierkiep’ (beer-chick) made the biggest food-impression on him. It is a chicken that is braaied with a can of beer that is pushed into its anatomy.
It was definitely not their last to South Africa and Africa.
They are going to be a day or two behind me when I depart from Nairobi. I am really looking forward to seeing them again on the road, possibly in Ethiopia, before our tracks go two different directions...
Goede reis Peter en Tessa!
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