{"id":237,"date":"2010-07-12T20:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T20:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:15:51","slug":"12-july-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"12 July (Day 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have come to the conclusion that it is not the accommodation that we are staying in that is the problem, but rather my expectations that require amendment, because notwithstanding the 1962 gold award winner of last night, I had a warm and comfortable night with minimum flea bites.<\/p>\n

We rode from Mbeya to the Old Farm house at kisolanza (http:\/\/www.kisolanza.com<\/a> ), just outside Iringa which was approximately 400km today. The Old Farm house is beautiful and worth a visit under ordinary circumstances.<\/p>\n

We are planning on spending the next 2 nights here so looking forward to the R&R as both Dale and I are finding the long days on the bike taxing on the back and shoulders.<\/p>\n

Generally an unremarkable day today other than the fact that the Tanzanians don’t believe in the concept of no overtaking on a blind rise which has resulted in more than a few heart stopping moments today.<\/p>\n

We are currently 5,750km from home.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful Tanzanian Landscapes<\/p>\n

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Dale and his hoss\u2026<\/p>\n

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All kinds of ways to transport heavy goods (bricks in this case)<\/p>\n

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Tanzanian Highlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have come to the conclusion that it is not the accommodation that we are staying in that is the problem, but rather my expectations that require amendment, because notwithstanding the 1962 gold award winner of last night, I had a warm and comfortable night with minimum flea bites. We rode from Mbeya to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capetocairo","category-day-by-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t