Hoof and Mouth: Botswana Border Crossing
A bright and early start Our two firestarters Donny and Rowan had volunteered for the one permanent position on our overland trip through Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. They were probably thinking it would enable them to avoid cooking and cleaning duties (the rotating teams). Of course, it didn’t hurt that “firestarter” sounded so […]
Livingstone Recovery
The market in downtown Livingstone is filled with woodcarvings of hippos, giraffe, warthogs, elephants, etc. They are lovely…but many are huge…and heavy, or fragile! How do people ever get them home? Some of the others had gone to the market with their T-shirts, shoes and things to trade for some of the carvings and other […]
Welcome to Livingstone
We’re not sure if Donny is cursed or if I’ve just been lucky, but his bag’s gone missing AGAIN! Thats 2 for 2. After losing hope the bag was just taking too long to be unloaded from the flight from Cape Town (via Johannesburg) we filled out the now-familiar forms with South African Airlines and […]