Road weary adventures

This is actually being written by Diane.  This October 2013 will be my first time to Ilha de Moçambique so I guess the new blog should be Mike and Diane on the island.....but we will leave things as they are!  😄. I am going to paste the text here of an email I just sent out.  Asking for lots of prayers for Mike and Rodger.  

Hey friends.....I am sitting in my hotel room in Johannesburg...thankful to have these legs of the journey easily behind me.  Mike and Rodger have not had as easy of a time on their drive.  Day 2 turned out to be when they should have had the military armed escort.  However, it left without them so they proceeded on their own.  No trouble with bandits but in the afternoon on Friday, in the middle of nowhere Moz, the trailer axle broke and the tire fell off.  I don't know the whole story but they did make it to a town which then brought a truck to load the trailer on.....it was unloaded and repaired, better than ever, but cost them an unexpected $400 plus being behind schedule.  
And I guess they have been stopped at least 20 times by police, checking their paperwork.  When I woke up from napping this morning, I had missed a request for immediate prayer but I think many warriors had them covered.  Police that stopped them this morning claimed that Rodger's driver's license was not correct so they were going to lock him in jail until Monday.  But by the time I could reply, Lynne let me know that they had ended up letting him off with a steep fine....5000 metacais....about $168. 
Mike just called me here at the hotel.  They have stopped for the night (Saturday evening here).  They plan to start again about 2 am and hope to be able to make it to the island tomorrow.   Mike said some roads are ok but many times they are driving on the shoulder dodging potholes.  
Please pray for an uneventful and safe final day of travels for them.  They are both exhausted. 
Mike Hagar, the other guy meeting us here, should be somewhere in the air over the Atlantic.  I will meet him at the Joberg airport tomorrow morning for the final leg of our journey to Nampula and then the island.