When Cecil Hill asked me to join a group of friends from the club for a 3-week trip to the Kaokoveld, I agreed in a flash. Although, at the time of asking the trip was a year in the future, soon the trip was upon us and other plans had crept in. In particular, on the day of departure from Cape Town, I had to be in Pretoria as part of the GS Trophy adjudicating team.
So the route for me ended up looking like this: