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Dear Ma
Dad and I went camping for the weekend at that other farm. The place where we went to had a couple of silly rules but we were smarter than the system, again, like always. I can't remember the whole story now. Doctor says it could have something to do with drinking water from that hidden underground pipe that we found and tapped into. As I remember more details after will tell you the whole story over the next couple of letters.
They told us that there are no filling stations near the camping place but I managed to get to the camp site on fumes.
That showed them! When we needed to start heading back the fumes wasn't working so we put some cooking oil in the petrol tank 'cause Pa read on the Internet that it works sometimes and it worked until the exhaust gave us some problems. Lucky for us a trekker towed us to the nearest town and it only took us 4 days.
I can't wait to tell you about driving around the camp site. The organisers was silly again and said to travel in groups or even busses (can you imagine that?!) but I will tell you next time.
Maybe it would have been better to listen to their advice about having enough petrol, but as you know I am usually slimmer than the system.
Your loving son, Piet |
Letters from Piet
Dear Ma
It is that time of the year again. Men from all over the country are preparing for the groot trek to go and camp there in Zululand. This time me and Boet are prepared and we are not going to make the same mistakes as last time we went to that other camp.
You remember how I told you about all those people with the aeries and choppers that were flying around the place the whole time and didn't want to land. Well, we were crouching in the mielieland because we didn't want to walk to the long drop. The camp rules said not to do that but we decided to get back to nature. Boet said that mielieblare is just as good as witgoud and even if there was no mielieblare we would just drip dry like a modderkoek. Boet did get some funny rash and aarbeie later but I don't think it had anything to do with the mielies.
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