I woke up as soon as the sun was up, lying on the floor of the truck. I looked at my phone which said 4:25am and went back to sleep. Sleep was now fitful as there were lots of people outside the truck making a racket. Consideration is something totally absent in Africa, although to be fair they probably didn't think there was a Mzungu (white person) sleeping in the back of the truck. Dixon and I were both up early and we drove down to the border, which wa...

I was up at 4:30am this morning for a 5am departure and a drive of almost 1000km. It was totally worth getting up early at this place as we saw more game on the way out (as it was still dark) than you would at some actual game reserves. The first animals we saw were waterbuck who darted in front of the truck as we were leaving, then a few zebra in the bushes and then lastly some Kudu. The best thing though were two giraffes who were sitting down sleeping rig...

I got up reasonably early this morning and had a pretty decent breakfast at Shoestrings, I then went for a walk into town to hand over the obscene amount of cash I had carried across the worst border in Africa to Joy at Backpackers Bazaar. She wasn't in yet so I had to wait around for a fair while. When she got in, I handed over the cash, got some last minute instructions from the boss (typical of this company) and then Joy offered to drive me to the border. ...

This morning I managed to sleep in until 8am before the office started harassing me about the truck. After firing back another email telling them what they expected me to do in a day usually takes three, I went back to bed for a bit. I got up and went to have a look at the truck. JB, the driver was already putting up the tents and inspecting them. I did a quick inventory on the medical kit and made some notes and then returned the keys back to JB. I then ...

We had a really early start this morning, leaving at 6am for the trucks trip to Maun so that the passengers can visit the Okavango Delta. I am not going to Maun, myself and seven of the passengers are meeting another truck and driver at Nata and transiting to Johannesburg, so today really was graduation day for me. We were on the road for about five hours before reaching the meeting point in Nata, we all had some lunch at the nearby chicken shop before I yell...