I spent the day motoring from Livingstone, Zambia to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. I learned never to invest in a used copy of Lonely Planet. It cost me today. I got to the Zimbabwe border this morning confident that there was no visa cost, but that was old info. I needed $30. So I had to backtrack to Livingstone, Zambia to get the cash. Luckily a kindly cab driver went out of his way to help me, even to the extent of finding friendly money changers, so it all worked out just fine. Once across the border I found a minivan headed to Bulawayo. It was an eight hour journey on a hard seat but I enjoyed it. I feel better being back on the regular bus lines and off the tours for a while.
I'm dead tired and haven't the energy for a long post. I had some trouble when I got here finding a bank that would take my ATM card (strange fact: the national currency of Zimbabwe is the US dollar) but eventually settled that. I also struggled to locate a good, cheap place to stay but that, too, is now old news. So I'm optimistic. I plan to stay here at least one full day before heading for a historical site called 'The Great Zimbabwe".
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