Logistics

We have spent a lot of time in the cars driving people back and forth during the caravan, and we have learned a lot about logistics, and how to plan for it.
The organisations newly bought (used) car has come in hand- I was driving some of the youth to another school one day and I counted 16 youth in the backseat. In a 5 seater, 4w drive. And no one complains, even though you cannot open any of the windows and it’s 40 degrees outside. The car only has a tape player, and I can’t count how many times we have listened to Dolly Partons greatest hits, with everyone in the backseat singing along happily, while our supervisor yells: “Shake whatever your mama gave you in abundance!”

Logistics already being a problem, it didn’t make things better that the petrol station out in the rural area was out of petrol/diesel for almost a week. Well, out of petrol is not really true- the petrol was there, but the black market had bought it all (organised together with the owner of the petrol station ofcourse), so you had to go to a house close to the petrol station and by the petrol at a higher price. This happens almost every week. Now petrol is already pricey, it costs about $ 1,20, so black market petrol is no better. But we learned that from the same house you could also buy pigs heads and cow’s feet, they are stored in the back of a car, and those ones are also at a black market price, which is good to know.