Mmmmmmm mopane worms. No really, yum. Actually bbbwwwwaaaacccccccchhhhhh. D-i-s-g-u-s-t-i-n-g even the topic makes me sick. The locals like them but I hate them. Think about it: eating worms! They say you have to cook them like meat. Cook worms over a braai… seriously?! Well, it actually kind of makes sense…

We’re driving south from Francistown, Botswana to the Tuli Block, a large conservation area on the great, greasy Limpopo River (my best beloved) on the Botswana/South Africa border. We left Zimbabwe back to Botswana in a collective snit. The snit itself wasn’t Zim’s fault – more a sudden realisation that…

I am sitting in a boma lounge at our camp with a group of unemployed Spanish, Portuguese, French, South African, American and Australian bush pilots in Maun, Botswana discussing the consequences of the global glut of inexperienced bush pilots. They seem to have enough money to afford to drink a…

It’s 4 a.m. and we’re camped at Chobe Safari Lodge in northern Botswana. The coffee’s on and will be waking the family up in an hour so we can hit the road early today. We left Maun earlier in the week after the car repairs were finally complete to revisit…

Today we hit our 45 day milestone – notionally half way through the trip. But we’re nowhere near half way in terms of distance so maybe we’re going to be a bit longer than our 90 day-ish timeframe… (Management 101: one requires an actual plan to achieve an objective –…

Now we just need to teach him to read… And thanks for the “Like” love – we’ll keep writing.

We’re still in Siavonga on Lake Kariba in Zambia. It’s a beautiful place – imagine something like the Thousand Islands with hippos, crocs, tropical vegetation and a big dose of African weather and chaos. Yesterday morning, as we were getting up we heard a huge commotion around the corner from…

Our last couple of days in Siavonga largely seemed to centre upon the hunt for the killer crocodile. Peter, the camp manager, had convinced the Zambian Wildlife people that the crocodiles in the creek where the boy was killed were a serious liability and therefore needed to be killed. The…

Zambia is very beautiful and complex. Most of it looks a bit like Botswana with rolling hills and enormous amounts of beautiful greenery only occasionally interrupted by thatched roof villages or small towns. Most of the big game wildlife is gone. Zambians are hunters and they’ve pretty much eaten everything…

I get the sense we’re going to be in Tanzania for a while… We arrived into Tanzania from Zambia at the Tunduma border post at the top of the Zambian “Great North Road” (nothing Great or even Road about it) – by far the most chaotic border crossing I’ve ever…