The key to a good holiday is to get all the bad stuff over with first

The best holidays in life probably do begin shortly after 4am. We decided we really were going to try to get to Cape Town for the funeral. Or Husband was, since my doctor’s appointment was moved to right smack in the middle of the solemn do, and that would not do. The N2 was not closed for three hours as it had been a few days before, (although it did appear they were doing a trucker drug bust heading the opposite direction). Anyway, we got there with no traffic delays, road closers or accidents. I was an hour and a...