There's no shade for hundreds of miles around, so we are driving listening to The Shadows :-)
The Skeleton Coast is delightful, no place to swim on this stretch because you can't get down from the cliffs, but the views are spectacular. There are shipwrecks every few km whih make for good photos (not so good for the sailors on the ships, but hey).
Strangely, you still see people walking on the road here, even though there are absolutely no settlements around for maybe a hundred km. Maybe they are hitching and between rides, but given it's a dead straight road with no turnings and no villages, you wonder what they did to get kicked out part-way!
The vehicle of choice around here seems to be the Defender 110 in classic "desert off-white" finish, nearly always nursed along at a stately 50km/h by their Touareg drivers. We've seen one well-equipped overlander convoy of two Toyotas, but other than that it's trucks or Landys, or the ever-present Mercs.
What's not working: not a lot, actually. We're not using the handbrake (it doesn't use the rear brake shoes anyway, so my earlier diagnosis of the vibration problem was wrong, but we don't need it) and the cold-start choke isn't needed any more either. The stereo is good, though one of the speakers is held onto the dash with string for that rugged look (we'll try to araldite it tonight). All the dodgy vibrations have stopped, even the one from the passenger's feet. The dixie horns are still not working - I have an idea there as well, but I'll save it for Mauritania.
Onwards! :-)
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