An Ill Advised Return for a One Year Overland Pandemic Tour of Africa Why is this photo interesting? It is not a rad Land Cruiser charging through the rain swollen rivers of Zambia, nor a photo of us crossing the Namib desert or anything equally exotic. But it is Interesting. That is my friend Paul, who…
This post is for those undertaking an overland trip in Africa that are not of African nationality. Whether you plan to rent or buy a vehicle locally, or to ship one to the continent, you’ll need to figure out how to handle money and transactions, both before you arrive and while on the road. Below…
Spillover is eerily prescient today, with COVID-19 widespread across the globe. But this book was written in 2012, before the West Africa ebola outbreak, before COVID. Through the book Quammen follows scientists into bat caves, across the jungles of central Africa and into the offices of universities around the world to better understand zoonosis, that…
Leaving Tofo July 21st, 2018. It’s hard to imagine that in two weeks we’d be home. Leaving Tofo was starting to feel a lot like the end of our trip. There is an inevitability to all the packing and stowing and cleaning out that loomed ahead and it began to dominate my thoughts. We were…
