Again, in true testament to the fact that you never know what will happen to you when you get up in the morning, life took a rather random turn. I was supposed to go out on a real safari, but instead I got fired. Something about me taking a job in South America? I almost laughed, I couldn't get a job in South America if I tried. There was also something about me bad mouthing the company to clients, and as they refused to show me the emails they got, I was f...

This morning I got up early and Dave took me down to meet the shuttle at the Impala hotel in town. I bordered the shuttle and off I went to Nairobbery. The shuttle took about an hour to get to the Namanga border, which compared to the Beitbridge border bulls***, was beyond efficient. The guy on the Kenyan side even said to me, Your passport is filling fast, I will only put a stamp for you. (instead of the full page sticker) Thank you, much appreciated, I said...

Up again this morning, taking my tent down on my own and then going to help Sue and Leanne with breakfast. We managed to eat and get packed up by 8am and then out of the game reserve by 9am, we saw a few hyenas and some elephants on the way out but not too much else in the way of big game. This is the part of overlanding I love, the driving, and we did plenty of that today. We drove for a good six hours straight, past Narok and didn't stop until we were abo...

Up with the sun this morning for a full days game driving in the Masai Mara game reserve. We saw much more today than yesterday, we saw all of the big five, except a leopard. By far the best thing we saw was a small group of lions, one of which had just killed a zebra and was trying to drag it away so it could eat in peace. The lioness gave up in the end and proceeded to eat her meal right in front of us. You see these kinds of things on shows like Nation...

Another early start as I was up at 5:30am, taking my tent down in the dark and then helping to cook breakfast again. We left for the Maasai Mara at about 7am, it was about 60km to the town of Narok where we went shopping for food and did some banking. Then it was about another 100km down a really rough road into the park. We stopped for lunch around 1pm in a Maasai village and the men in the village danced around us, dipping their heads and chanting basicall...