After a 5 hour drive we made it 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 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 take out 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 with 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 Rasata 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 and 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 am but fortunately our rooms were far enough away that music wasn’t too much of a bother.
Breakfast the in the restaurant the next morning was barely palatable so we choked down a few bites and departed to our final stop back in Kasane, Botswana.
