All Packed Up We’ve left the house – finally. The car is stuffed. We were earlier abandoning loaves of bread for lack of space. There were some last-minute negotiations over how much underwear was really necessary (2 vs 10) and we settled on 10. We’re clearly not going to make…

We’ve made it to Springbok in the Northern Cape – a one buck town, tumbleweeds and all. It’s cold and windy and wet! I hadn’t figured on cold as I packed so am freezing my ass off in shorts and t-shirt. We’re sticking to our camping-only pledge and are camping…

We’ve been on the road for a couple of days and already we have forgotten what day of the week it is – a good sign that we’re enjoying ourselves. After Springbok (Bedrock) we charmed our way out of South Africa despite Oliver’s expired visa and drove across the Namibian…

Well, we’re into our ummm… fourth day. Seems a LOT longer! It’s been busy: breakfast, pack, shower, drive far, do, unpack, dinner, sleep, repeat. That may sounds a bit tiresome but we are having a really good time. We’ve covered only about 1400 kms but the last couple of days…

It’s Christmas Eve and we’ve been camping for a week now and continuing to have an amazing time. Namibia is a real surprise – absolutely gorgeous and enormously diverse. It is, not surprisingly given its history, a lot like South Africa with South African banks, shops, petrol stations, attitudes –…

It’s raining and there’s a big thunderstorm on its way. I’m in our more spacious 3 room, 8-man tent – it’s like moving into the Taj Mahal after a week of pop-tents and roof tents. We’ve been in Etosha National Park in northern Namibia for 3 days – and we’re…

We’ve made it from Etosha National Park all the way to Maun in Botswana to meet the Lloyds. It was a lot of driving… 8 hours from Etosha to Poppa Falls, Namibia and then another 7 hours from Poppa Falls to Maun in Botswana. But the scenery was incredible. We…

Well, after a long night up with Oliver (our 4 year old) suffering from a 41C temperature and uncontrollable diarrhea, he’s been admitted to a private hospital and is staying until they get the fever under control. Our plans to head into Chobe this morning with the Lloyds were rudely…

This is worth US$0.000000000000000000001!!!!!!!! Crazy. Huh??? Think about it: Zimbabwe $100 000 000 000 000 = R0.oo We met a man here who said that he had to take a full wheelbarrow of one hundred trillion dollar bills just to buy one loaf of bread. So they stopped using Zimbabwean…

Oliver is fully recovered from his bout with an African lurgy, out of hospital and back to playing Jedi knight with the barbecue tongs. A relatively quick but painful (certainly for the rest of us) recovery. On the day of his release, we put our groggy, gaunt and grumpy Oliver…