Trip to PMB Campus

Averee, Ashley and I traveled the hour ride with John to pick up the two PMB kids so they could join us in Durban. We really had to pee, and there were no toilets open, the signs were taunting us!

So this is the van. On the way up we noticed some heavy traffic, but we figured it would be gone by the time we headed back. Not true. The traffic was backed up for at least a mile, and with all that stop and go, our van started smoking. No biggie. Then the floor became rather hot, and the van started filling with smoke. Not so good. Then just as we were out of the traffice jam, John discovered that he couldn't change gears. And then we broke down in the road further backing up the highway. It was interesting. ;)

This is Kara a PMB student from MSU and our sad van.

We ended up waiting on the side of the road. Left to right: Me, Kara, Ashley, Julian (a french friend of Guthrie)
Yeah, we waited for two hours, but it wasn't bad at all.

Averee

We met these two nice men who were civil engineers. They had been working on the road until the traffic got too heavy. The younger man's name was Bernard. He was very nice, he taught us some Afrikaans an he also showed us how the machines worked and what they actually were doing on the road. He was quite smitten by Ashley and Averee, that is what I think anyway. I know it is dark, but L to R: Ashley, me, civil engineer, Bernard, Averee, Julian, and Lyle (he's also Guthrie's friend)

In this picture is me and Guthrie. Guthrie is the other student at PMB. Bernard let us climb on top of one of the huge road machines and he explained how it worked. The machine was apparently very expensive, like 1 million USD. He probably wasn't supposed to let us do that...