A transit day today. No convoy back to Jo’burg. Just outside Bloemfontein we saw a small aeroplane parked on the side of the road and discovered, when we stopped for breakfast, that it had made an emergency landing, on the motorway, the day before, just after we had passed that area. We have set ourselves a little rule here, that when we go below the half full sign, on the petrol gauge, we fill up. On this occasion we were on the main highway, the N1, we had just over half a tank and decided to fill up at the next station. What a mistake. We got very close to empty and were starting to get worried. Roger then noticed a hand painted sign on the side of a barn type building saying Petrol. We pulled
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