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Camp Dinner Africa

Camp Dinner Africa

Camp Dinner Africa

It’s dinner at one of the camp sites we visited. This one was a catered camp site. This means that the guys who were taking us around in the jeeps had a support crew with them who took our tents and they were all set up for us when we arrived at the camp site. Normally, we have to put them up ourselves. They also took them down and moved them to the next camp site. Also, we usually had tea and popcorn waiting when we arrived. Beer was, of course, always close by. Plus, the crew did all the cooking and other tough stuff so we just enjoyed ourselves. The food was also a lot better than the group fixed back in the normal camp sites. There was talk among the group about kidnapping a couple of the support crew and taking them with us to Cape Town to do the cooking and setting up/taking down the tents. Of course we would have paid them double what they were making at their current positions and provided them with bus fare back home. It might have happened had someone not astutely pointed out that they probably had no passports.

Africa 2012 Map

Africa 2012 Map

Africa 2012 Map

I spent the summer of 2012 wandering around Africa in an overland truck. We camped out for almost two months, living in tents and eating camp food. Showers were taken less often than I would have liked, but at some point we stopped caring. This is a map of where the truck went. I heard that we covered over 9,000 kilometers. That would be over 5,000 miles if it was correct. It was an interesting trip, to say the least. I had never been to sub-Sahara Africa before. I have now been there. At the end of the trip I stayed in Cape Town to acclimate myself to civilization again. I also stopped off in Dubai for a visit on my way back. Ramadan in 115 degree heat is… well… special. There are 260+ blog entries that follow that are about my trip. There’s a quiz at the end. Good luck.