Dog Food - 12/01/12

A Drakensburg foothill as a storm rolls in

BEN - I spent the majority of the day working on the trail map that I have been concocting in my head for the past few weeks.  Khotso is huge and has some amazing hiking trails, but absolutely no map of them!  This is a shame, so I have been making it my mission to do each hike (with Gabby) and to take a picture on the hike that represents some of the things you see/do on the hike.  I then write a little blurb about it.  The plan is to put small posters of each hike around a larger map of the farm with all the trails on it.  I sat on PowerPoint, and crafted the majority of the map, even including some rudimentary contour lines.  After some painstaking work, the map really started looking good.  I think it will be a cool mark to leave on the backpackers.  As I crafted in the office, Gabby sat in the backyard and read/sunbathed.  

A stone hut, typical in Lesotho

Around mid afternoon a couple from Durban arrived.  Little did I know this couple would make me lose all faith in humanity.  She was bleach blond, extra thick makeup bimbo-Barbie, and he was one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met.  Accompanying them were their lovely miniature Doberman pinchers.  We warn guests to not bring small dogs because Smeagal, our Anatolian Shepherd  kills them (actually ate Steve’s mother-in-law’s dog).  Smeagal’s job is killing jackal, so those little yippy shits were prime targets.  The couple could not get this simple fact through their thick skulls, and let their dogs roam freely around the backpackers, peeing all over the place.  We closed every door and window, and sure enough Smeagal arrived and started circling the backpackers.  Gabby and I spent the afternoon trying to keep the dogs away from the windows.  At one point, Smeagal put her giant paw on the glass door in the back, and I called Steve to get her elsewhere.  She would break that door in a second.   What a mess.

Later, there was a big rugby game on, so we decided to head to the Trout Hatchery with Steve and watch.  As we enjoyed the game, Gabby and I were able to pick up WiFi and Skype with our families a bit.  After the game, we decided to eat there.  There food is always good, and we had a nice impromptu date before heading off to bed.