As I had planned (plans which almost got ruined by my previous employer), I moved to JHB last weekend without any problems. Driving through the night I arrived here early Sunday morning only to spend the whole day unpacking and repacking and unpacking again, surviving on the 20 minutes sleep I managed to get in the car.

I only started packing on Friday afternoon, which meant I spent most of Saturday packing, yet we still only ended up leaving an hour later than planned so that wasn’t too much trouble.

All in all the trip was fairly uneventful, only getting a scare when I ended up driving over something (???). I had my car lifted off the ground and everything checked out during the week so there doesn’t appear to have been any permanent damage fortunately; I even scored free wheel balancing.

Otherwise, this whole endevour has been a fairly costly one for me: having a towbar fitted, having smash and grab fitted, a full service done, as well as wheel alignment and balancing. That just covers my car, I also rented a trailer, flew my brother-in-law down and had my bike “couriered” up, not to mention the costs associated with the actual trip itself. My bike was collected on Tuesday evening and arrived on Wednesday morning… that’s some pretty speedy service.

One thing that did surprise me about the whole trip is that I barely even felt the trailer I was pulling, occasionally having to check the mirror just to make sure it was still there.

I guess the next entry will be about how life has changed for me, and the differences between living in JHB and CPT. So far I can say: not very much, but I’ve only been here for a week so we’ll see how that opinion changes over time. I’m also going for a ride tomorrow, so maybe I’ll finally get some photo’s of me on the bike.