After a five-hour drive, we made it to Monze and our accommodation for the night, the Golden Pillow Lodge. We had stayed here in 2019, and it was clean and very reasonably priced. There was a roadhouse next door with cold beer, so I was happy.
What we weren’t happy about, though, was that when we showed up to check in, they didn’t have our reservation. Rather than wasting time trying to sort things out, we paid for two rooms (fortunately, they had two rooms) and unloaded our luggage.
The restaurant at the lodge was definitely not the type one would take a date to. The dinner menu was fish, chicken and something else, so we made our way to the local Hungry Lion to pick up some takeout chicken.
Back at the ranch, we sat around a covered picnic table and ate an early dinner. The chicken from Hungry Lion is actually quite good, and a dinner for four—with 12 very meaty pieces, coleslaw and fries—cost about $17.00 CAD.
A little later on, I decided to pop out to the roadhouse for a couple of cold ones and met and chatted with the head of security at the establishment. His name was Wezly, and he was a Rasta with dreads tucked under his tam/Rasta cap. He asked if I would like to see them, and of course I did, but they weren’t what I expected.
The roadhouse was slowly getting busier. On one side, there were cloth bags containing pork lining the side of a BBQ, and on the other side, another BBQ for cooking additional goodies.
It was Friday night, and the loud music didn’t stop until 4:00 a.m., but fortunately, our rooms were far enough away that the music wasn’t too much of a bother.
Breakfast in the restaurant the next morning was barely palatable, so we choked down a few bites and departed for our final stop back in Kasane, Botswana.
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