Rob and Dee Overland in Africa 2014 – 10,000 miles – 4 months – 10 countries
We realize that there are many folks out there reading our blog to assist them in planning their own trips- with that in mind I have prepared a series of posts with the type of nitty-gritty detail that will help others intent on their own adventures. I have placed this series under the pre departure … Read more
Zambia – a favorite. Friendly, helpful, open folks so well demonstrated by the large amount of “how can I help?” we received from everyone passing by in cars, on bikes or on foot when we had our truck breakdown on the rutted dirt road to Kapishya. Wide diversity from wilderness of north Luangwa to first … Read more
Had and awesome time rafting the Zambezi river just below Victoria Falls. The falls are awesome- about a mile wide over the falls then going into a twisting canyon about the size of Glenwood Canyon on the Colorado River. Glenwood gets about 20,000 cfs max max and the Zambezi must be in the hundreds … Read more
A whole series of interesting events have transpired lately. Serendipity, luck, coincidence, who knows? On our way into Serengeti we had briefly met a wonderful So. African couple, Mike and Hester, who we later ran into a second time at a campground in southern Tanzania. We enjoyed each other’s company so much we made a … Read more
I’m sitting on the bank of the Luangwa river. The sun has just set, painting the sky an ostentatious orange – reminiscent of Doug West’s paintings of an Arizona sunset. In front of me there are at least 50 hippos bellowing and snorting and getting ready to leave the water where they spend their entire … Read more
Well the internet died after I typed a page story about this experience. Here are a few photos – I’ll rewrite the post later.