Today we have relaxed in campsite - downtime is good even when on adventures. We learnt the art of patience as we accessed the internet, did a week's worth of washing as the rain torrented down, and finished books. Tessa met Steve who is on a 3.5 year journey travelling the globe on his motorbike. Vikki met Fatima who is her new sister - a 28 woman who was born on the Sudan border and whose mother managed to escape the difficulties with her when she was 2 whilst the rest of their family was killed. Fatima is very pregnant with twin girls who will be an addition to her two sons (8 years and 5 years old). She is a painter with her own studio at the camp gates and teaches classes in local cooking. We have organised to do that with her on Saturday. In the evening we joined Mark & Julie from Aus, along with Samantha from Edinburgh and Carolyn from Colorado for dinner at the restaurant next door. In a word "replete".

Life with the truck has it's routines:
* morning is breakfast either cold (if we have a early start) or hot (more leisurely start) with 3 bowls for dishes - first with soap, second with dettol & third to clean it before it is waved dry.
* we take our tents down and repackage the truck. Tents in one place, mattresses in another, bags in another, cooking equipment in another, food in another and finally the stools in one to themselves.
* under our initial seats we each have a locker where we keep our lunch food and day bags. The lockers stay the same whilst we move seats most driving days.
* we buy food for our own lunches, we have been buying bread, veges, cheese and some form of meat. Generally on long driving days we park on the side of the road and get out the tables, stools and wash bowls to have lunch.
* there is a safe and all our passports and additional money and other imprint paperwork is kept in there. Two people have keys and we have code words to refer to what we want etc. Tis all very Bond. When we are parked up in a town there is a security group who needs to check everything is locked and secure.
* arrival at campsite is immediately putting tents up, getting mattresses and setting up for the night. We have roster groups for cooking, truck cleaning and washing of communal cooking dishes. It all works well.

Two new people joined us today - women from the UK.