Finally! Our African backpacking adventure is underway. Just a bit of background, my Mom and I have had plans to travel through Africa for several years. That plan materialised last summer when we booked flights to South Africa in August 2011. I flew out a week earlier to Cape Town to say hello to some special people and revisit the city that captivated me for a year and a half. When I arrived I called home to let Mom know I had arrived safe and I remember the ...