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 ...

I had an awesome sleep in this morning in my own private room in Victoria Falls, before going out and inspecting my project. I large yellow overland truck in the backyard of the backpackers called Makako, with a picture of Rafiki from the movie The Lion King on the side of it. I stood in front of it looking at it for a while and then headed off down to see Joy at Backpackers Bazaar in town to get the keys to said truck. I regaled Joy with tails my epic bus jo...

I really did not want to get up this morning as I was still tired from last nights partying and my lungs felt like they had been put through a cheese grater, due to chain smoking about five cigars. However, I had agreed to go white water rafting on the Zambezi river today, so I wasn't left with the option of sleeping in. I got up and quickly dressed and asked the kitchen to make me a bacon sandwich for breakfast, and then the truck arrived to collect us. We ...

Awoke with a start at 3am this morning with an awful stinging/crawling sensation in my right arm. Even in my half dazed state at that time of the morning recognized that it was probably a spider. I immediately flew out of bed and went on a frantic search for the beastie. I completely pulled the bed apart, but to no avail, my attacker was long gone and had left me with the most awful sensation in my arm. I put on some sting ointment, which didn't really do m...

We attempted to set off from Antelope Park this morning at 9am, however, this ended up being 10:30am as they had a problem with their card machine and George was having trouble paying the bill. Oh well, TIA. As soon as we were underway, I fell asleep, yes I am definitely back into the swing of overlanding if I can fall asleep on that truck, which is a hundred times more bumpy that either of the Dragoman trucks I was on. At about 12:30pm we reached the limits...