Rob and Dee Overland in Africa 2014 – 10,000 miles – 4 months – 10 countries
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
Namibia is a tremendous contrast to the other African countries we have visited. It is much more first world and is also very sparsely populated. Elsewhere in Africa there are people everywhere, walking on every road, standing at every road crossing, carrying water or firewood at any time of the day or night. In Namibia … 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
We’ve had a few interesting elephant encounters lately here in Botswana. Our adventures stared in Chobe National Park where we were staying in a riverside campground that is located on a lighted waterhole. In the evenings you can watch the elephants come to drink under the dim glow of a few orange floodlights. Sitting on … 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