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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…
