A New Day

Dear Victoria Falls; home of temptation, excitement and over-indulgence to the extreme. I loved you with all that you represented, but had...

The sound of Arnie’s engine died away. We shifted and jostled in the van straining to see why all the land rovers and overland trucks were c...

I laid my pen to rest and looked at my watch. I could hear rustling outside of the tent and knew that Oliver must be itching to get going. A...

With Miki gone, we knew our time in Arnie was winding to a close. Our little blue kombi had been good to us, but was sorely battered and bru...

While the Okavengo Delta was all about being one with nature, our next stop held a different feel. While our guides stocked up on supplies a...

A perfume of trees caresses my nostrils. Amidst the thorns a  baobab fills the air. A skirtish impala breaks through the bush   and le...

    My gaze flicked the horizon for tell-tale signs of the animals that we had been surrounded by whilst in the Okavengo Delta. Occasionally...

   Marjorie and I leaned back into the mokoro we were drifting in. Oscar casually pushed us along with his long pole pushing through the sti...

   My gaze roamed the horizon.  A smile slowly spread across my face. I was standing at the edge of a salt pan in the middle of Botswana. A ...

   The truck bounced along the highway, but could not succeed in bouncing the grin off my face. I had left the safe confines of my relatives...