Driving in Africa

We realize that there are many folks out there reading our blog to assist them in planning their own trips- with that in mind I have prepared a series of posts with the type of nitty-gritty detail that will help others intent on their own adventures. I have placed this series under the pre departure […]
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Money Changers

We realize that there are many folks out there reading our blog to assist them in planning their own trips- with that in mind I have prepared a series of posts with the type of nitty-gritty detail that will help others intent on their own adventures. I have placed this series under the pre departure […]
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African Border Crossings

We realize that there are many folks out there reading our blog to assist them in planning their own trips- with that in mind I have prepared a series of posts with the type of nitty-gritty detail that will help others intent on their own adventures.  I have placed this series under the pre departure […]
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Departure

After several long days of carting boxes and furniture down thirty-one floors, driving them across three cities, and struggling to wedge everything into our storage unit, we are officially out of our apartment and mere hours away from departure. Arranging our exodus from the apartment left me in...
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En Route

Below: Our Defender loaded into its container in preparation for its four-week journey to port and across the rolling seas. It is travelling on the MSC Janine, a rather prosaically named cargo ship from Panama. There is a website on which one can read the ‘Vessel Details’,...
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African Music

Our contact told us that our vehicle, despite being fifteen years old, had a reasonably modern sound system. The Defender has been across Africa once before, and the previous owner had scoffed when we asked if it had anything other than radio: ‘Are you crazy? You think I would drive across...
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