Usakos

We picked up our visas this morning, grateful they took only one day to process instead of the usual three and after waiting around until 4pm to pick up the Ezi Awn panels from their Windhoek distributor we headed towards Swakopmund.   Because of the late start out of town and a long long run of roadworks we had no hope of making it to Swakopmund before dark so we've stopped at a town called Usakos where the local policeman told us off for not having Namibian plates on the Landy and told us we should head straight for Windhoek to get some.  He hadnt heard of the concept of a carnet de passage but seemed happy to take our word for it when we said we had a permit to drive in Namibia without Namibian plates.  I think he was just bored.