Rob and Dee Overland in Africa 2014 – 10,000 miles – 4 months – 10 countries
We spent the last 10 days of our African Adventure enjoying Cape Town. What a wonderful and livable city. We were joined there by our friends Mike and Hester whom we had originally met on the road into the Serengeti in Tanzania, and had spent several days with since. Much of our efforts in CT … Read more
Rob did it again! He, with a lot of help from Jean and David two gyro friends, put the icing on the cake of my Africa adventures. At 4:30 pm Thursday with the skies clearing we were in the air in two Magni gyro planes. These are open cockpit tandem cockpit gyros of Italian design … Read more
It is hard to imagine a greater contrast in landscape from the desert and sand dunes of Namibia last week to the flower strewn meadows of South Africa’s Namaqualand where we are now. With our Kiwi friends Brian and Sarah aboard we drove endless miles of parched white sandy desert in Namibia and now … Read more
OK, OK… I know I’ve been a real slacker on the blogging. Thing is we are doing so much and filling each day to the max that there just is not much time left for blogging and since we are camped out most every night we are not near cities with internet access. Anyway we … Read more
Our camp in Botswana is on a waterhole and they have dug an underground hide next to the waterhole. You enter a stairway about 30 meters away and walk through a tunnel to the viewing area. I was just now sitting about 20 feet from a small herd of elephants– I was eye level with … 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