It wasn’t until today that we felt like we were on a road trip, having figured out how to stream music from our phones to the car; which side the fuel side was; and found various cubby holes in the car to store stuff.
Before the trip, I had researched and bought a fancy phone holder for the car, by Peak Design. I had thought I broke it the first day having loosened it too much, but a quick google search showed me how to fix it. But then it turns out the car had Apple CarPlay so it wasn’t needed. However, we couldn’t connect both my phone for maps and Marissa’s phone for music, so we needed it after all. It’s the best car phone holder I’ve tried, we’ve gone over some bumpy roads and it’s held its position, and only fallen off twice on really big bumps.
We’ve been learning how to pronounce things: bagatelle is Italian-like with the trailing e pronounced, vlei is a cross between ‘vlay/flay’ and means river, Swakopmund is phonetic and means ‘mouth of the Swakop’
It took about five hours to drive from Bagatelle to our lodge near Sossusvlei, including a quick stop in Maltahohe.
Hoodia Desert Lodge is in a beautiful setting, beside the Tsauchab River, which was dry at this time of year. It’s low season and there was just one other couple at the lodge (tomorrow it’s just us).
Dinner was excellent. We had an early start tomorrow (4:20am!) to get to the dunes so went to bed right after dinner.
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