Botswana Hoof and Mouth

A bright and early start was ensured by our two firestarters Donny and Rowan.  They had volunteered for that permanent position, probably thinking it would enable them to avoid cooking and cleaning duties..and since it sounded so manly.  It also meant they had to be awake before everyone else to get the fires going for [...]

Livingstone Recovery

The market in downtown Livingstone is filled with woodcarvings of hippos, giraffe, warthogs, elephants, etc.  They are lovely…but many are huge…and heavy, or fragile!  How do people ever get them home?  Some of the others had gone to the market with their T-shirts, shoes and things to trade for some of the carvings and other [...]

Victoria Falls

Day 2.  Rather than waste more time trying to get a status update on the lost luggage on a Sunday, we head to Victoria Falls.  A 20,000 kwacha taxi ride got us to the front gates of this World Heritage Site.  We visited the small visitor’s center, which displayed detailed information in a single room [...]

Welcome to Livingstone

We’re not sure if Donny is cursed or if I’ve just been lucky, but his bag’s gone missing AGAIN!  Thats 2 for 2.  After losing hope the bag was just taking too long to be unloaded from the flight from Cape Town (via Johannesburg) we filled out the now-familiar forms with South African Airlines and [...]

Namibia Nomad

We are leaving for a 21-day trek overland through Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and back to Cape Town.  We ran around yesterday getting last minute supplies (sleeping bag and roll mat, cutlery, plate and mug, etc.)  We had pretty much everything else we need.  We also had to pass by the local Amex office to purchse [...]