Stuck...

Vacation is off to a roaring start. About three hours into South Africa, en route to Mozambique, the truck in which we five travel began to sputter. After getting an appraisal (in a VERY dodgy country neighborhood) from a helpful trucker, we coaxed it the 30 km to Pretoria, where we ending up spending last night crammed five to a double hotel room at the Holiday Inn. The car's being looked at, having apparently dropped some key bearings, and I'm at the pleasant Hatfield Plaze shopping centre, in one of Pretoria's nicer district. It's very pretty here - more of that Southern California feeling - but it's not Mozambique. Hopefully we'll be on our way tonight, hitting Maputo by sundown. If the car will thake longer, this being the Easter weekend, we'll probably all bus to Swaziland and formulate a better plan from there. Wish me luck.