Our job takes us on some interesting roads:
This is climbing down one of the escarpments found all over the Gokwe area.
Below is a pic of a place where the animals have been licking the rock, probably for millennia…
Its quite a nice view from here (looking north)
This pic was taken an hour or so earlier – slightly to the right of the view above.
That minibus is nearly MIA in that pothole, and I cant remember what it looked like when it got to this one – bottom left! I think there were three people on top of that minibus! 
Most often in this area, everyone drives in the ditch!
The roads in these two pics below are what we commonly drive on! I’m always wary of Mopane veld – a burnt Mopane stick slips through a tyre very easily – something to do with both the carbon and the hardness of the Mopane heartwood.
This road (above) is a fairly substantial one – often the bushes scratch the side of our car.
Some are pretty sandy! 
Great but dusty roads!
The roads are truly terrible. It looks all great fun, but after 250km is battling with the steering wheel my shoulders get sore
I know that feeling. Travelled from gweru to vic falls ‘the short cut ‘…long long way!
Why do animals lick the rock?
For minerals, we think
You are so blessed Frankie….. and you call this work!!
Yes I know and I make an effort to appreciate it – even when I’m tired or the client is a moron, or the place is far, hot and boring!
so what exactly are you doing in Zimbabwe?
My husband does borehole surveys
We just spent the weekend in Gona Re Zhou, The roads are a challenge. I know the Gokwe area well.
Gona re Zhou is special. We will go back!
Very nice pictures Frankie….l once visited the area going to Mafungautsi forest it seems Gokwe is maintaining its beauty. thanks for the images
That is on the left as you travel to Gokwe? After that amazing climb up, up, up that long straight road? Zhamba isn’t the little village called? Or Zhombe? We didn’t work in there, but Im told the forest is being cut down rapidly and its borne out if you look at the satellite image. Certainly from the road, it looks as beautiful as ever. I do hope we get a job in the Mafungautsi Forest sometime, Id love to photograph it
I would never arrive at my destination with such beautiful countryside to see and photograph. Thanks for sharing.
Sometimes we arrive very late!