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Cape Town
“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller Get Me Off this Truck I rolled into Cape Town via overland truck. I’d been on this truck for 2 ½ weeks, traveling through southern Africa, mostly Namibia, and was ready to get the hell off it. I saw some amazing things. I made beautiful memories. And I was over it. Over sleeping in a tent, over camp food, and most definitely over spending half of my day sweat napping in a bumpy truck with no A/C, and nothing but a crooked branch keeping the…
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African Overlanding Part 2
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck Somewhere in Namibia This overland camping thing has turned out differently, and also exactly how I expected. Since leaving Etosha national park, our giant truck carried the 15 of us south to the town of Swakopmund, Namibia. Swakopmund is on the western coastline of Namibia. The town is described as ‘german looking’ as its development was expedited by German expats looking for a Namibian beach house. I personally don’t think it looks German, but it also doesn’t look Namibian. It’s desert dry and arid, but with added surprises like newly…
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Overlanding Part 1: Botswana to Namibia
“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” – David Attenborough What is Overlanding? The next chapter of my nomadic life involves a new way to travel – overland camping. For weeks, I’ve been throwing around this term like using it makes me that next level of travel professional. I’ve started telling my friends – ‘why yes, after the next stop I’ll be overlanding across Africa for a few weeks’. Sometimes I use it as a noun, often a verb, once in a while as a…
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Victoria Falls
Catching Up I’m very behind in blogging. You don’t have to tell me. I already know. Since my last post I have spent over a month traveling across the African continent, from Tanzania to Namibia and further still. I’m not even physically in Africa anymore. I’ve left the continent. That’s how behind I am. I’ve been busy. That’s my only excuse. I’ve been jumping in gorges, canoeing in rivers, climbing dunes, and hiking waterfalls. But let’s be real here, those things didn’t take up entire days. I’ve had down time. More often than not I was drinking a beer with someone, taking a nap, reading a book, and embracing my often…
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Safaris in the Serengeti and Beaches in Zanzibar
“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” – David Attenborough Tanzania Continues My original plan was to write one giant blog post about Tanzania, and all of the uniquely fascinating places I visited here – Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the island of Zanzibar. This idea was great for a lot of reasons, the most important one being that I traveled with the same fun loving group of people through many of these places. This idea, however, also doesn’t work for a lot…
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Tanzania: Kil a Man (Jaro)
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” ― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond African Arrival Tanzania. Kilimanjaro. The Serengeti. Safari. I’ve come to Africa for all of these things. After a long flight starting in Budapest, with a few hour stopover in Dubai, I also arrived tired, worn out on European touristing, ready for a new landscape, and (finally) a large group of friends to share it all with. I was getting fed up of traveling alone and self-entertaining. Bring on the massive travel group and pre-planned daily itineraries. Over the course of the next two days, nine other eager world travelers arrived to meet me. We…
