I am officially a jetsetter!  Yesterday I left Joburg on a flight to Kimberly at 16h00, and was back in the office by 8h00 this morning!  I had to do a talk at the De Beers Finch mine out on the road to Kuruman!  I had a couple of real trip highlights along the way:

FIrstly, I got upgraded to the new C-class merc for my trip through the Kalahari!  ME!  The Renault-clio die-hard!  The chick who gets ripped at Avo because even our driver drives a better car than me!!!! (although he should, shouldn’t he???? He drives all day!  How horrible if he drove a worse car than me…..??!!!). I must confess to feeling a wee bit cool in my white merc.

It took me about 15 min to get out of the parking, though: who knew the handbrake had to be  off before it would go forward?! Also, stopping and getting out was a bit of a challenge: nowhere on the car is a sign that says ‘put into parking gear before you take out the keys, stupid!’ so I didn’t find it very user friendly, I must say. 

Although, I found out how to work the cruise control about 20km away from my destination, which was fun, but short. But I never did figure how to turn off the radio once I got out of range, so I listened to loud static for most of the trip until I accidently bumped the volume button on the steering wheel at which moment I was able to experience pure bliss and silence as I pulled into the mining town….

Never did crack the bluetooth cellphone connection either, dammit!

Oh, and then I came home on the lear jet, and was back on the Avo mountain for coffee at 8, (did you see how casually I said that?) So now, when you talk about me, just call me Jules the Jetsetter… my future’s so bright……….!