On our last full day, we decided to take it easy, and only go on some short game drives. Of course once we got on the road, I just kept going until we ended up being in the car most of the day again. We did travel at a leisurely pace, and spent time enjoying the scenery and watching the wildlife. We saw zebra, kudu, warthogs, lots of impala, and even a group of giraffe's. We passed a huge ostrich farm, with thousands of ostriches. We did not see any elephants though, and that was one of our main reasons for going to this area. Oh well, we will get our chance eventually.
We took our time packing up in the morning, and got on the road about 9am. It was a hot day, but it seemed unusually hot in the car. We had the A/C on full blast, but it didn't seem to be cooling us off at all.
About half way home a bad smell was coming from the back of the vehicle, and I thought it was a leaky butane container that we used with our lantern. I threw it out, but the smell continued . When we got home we realized that the smell was coming from the melted carpeting of the vehicle. Because the tail pipe fell off, the heat from the engine was concentrated directly over the cargo bay, were the camping gear was stored. It was hot enough that it melted the carpet and a blue tarp I had laid down to set the dirty camping gear on. Thankfully everything else was fine.
Now to get the tailpipe fixed, and start planning the next camping trip.
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