Namibia The land of vast deserts, stunning scenery, game meat, and the best town in Africa (Swakopmund)               I would rank Namibia up there with Madagascar and Iceland for scenery.  I have heard so much about it in the past but I was excited to witness it for myself. …

South Africa Please click here for Return to South Africa Winter of 2016-2017                       The African land of Milk and Honey After traveling through some of the craziest parts of Africa over the last five months, South Africa seemed like such a long time away,…

Angola and Cabinda One of the most scenic countries I have seen, and just 16 years removed from Civil War…                 Cabinda Cabinda is technically apart of Angola, but is separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of land of DRC.(SEE MAP BELOW)    …

DRC   People are welcoming and friendly to all outsiders, despite the bad press       A quick four night jaunt through the DRC was something that I was always looking forward too.  We did not hit any major towns and stayed pretty close to the ocean as we made our way on muddy…

Congo Digging the truck out of mud to the rich city of Point-Noire Congo has always fascinated many people from the stories you hear on TV to the Michael Crichton bestselling book “Congo.” I can tell say that the little time we spent here was worth it!!! Crossing over from Gabon we stayed at the…

Gabon The story of Rain along the Equator and Bush Camps with stunning scenery….           As we have gotten pretty lucky on our trip with rain so far, it seems that it all decided to come down in one fail swoop while we were in Gabon. Gabon a country in Africa…

Cameroon Country 100, hiking Mt. Cameroon, and the humidity of the tropics strikes many times Going into Cameroon I did not know what to expect. I have heard about the humidity and of course Mt. Cameroon which is the tallest peak in Western Africa. Being this was my 100th Country, I decided to shake it…

Nigeria The friendliest people (and chimps and drill monkeys) coupled with a million roadblocks In the news, we always hear a lot of negative things about Nigeria because of extremist groups that are in the country. Often times we base what we see on the news as fact about the country. Imagine if everyone in…

Benin The Birthplace of the REAL VOODOO It seems that even though Benin’s size (about the size of Ohio) is smaller than the rest of its neighbors, it holds more interesting sites that many countries that surround it. The evidence of the French, Portuguese, Dutch and English colonial empires is still seen in many cities…

Togo A small country with a big heart and the running Naked Man Togo was a stop we made in order to get a visa and in turn wait for the visa. The country is very small and we entered it from Ghana and made our way south to the Coast.        …

Ghana God, Jesus, Gold, English, wildlife, and the land of funny signs PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM AFTER THE WRITING TO SEE MORE PICTURES This was the first country on our trip in which the local populace spoke English, which was easier for us to communicate.  The rest of the countries thus far on our…

Ivory Coast               A quick trip through a country with one of the largest churches in the world With the border being closed between Guinea and Ivory Coast, we were not able to enter on that side, so we had to go back up through Guinea to Mali and…

Mali A country plagued by violence that is pretty tame             Coming into Bamako (the capital of Mali), we had already been bush camping pretty much without a shower (except a waterfall shower and bucket shower in Guinea) for about 18 days. No one knew what to expect going in…

Guinea Now we are definitely into the wild west of Africa!!!!!               We were not supposed to go into Guinea for the part of the trip, but there was a problem with terrorism going into Mali (but because of border closures we came into Mali anyway). Coming in from…

SENEGAL             Starting to be the real Africa? The Africa that we know seems to be coming alive as we reach into Senegal. As we cross the border from Mauritania, things seem to be a bit livelier. About 10 kilometers before the border we noticed a big change in vegetation…

  Where Africa starts to divide-North from Sub Sahara             Driving across the border to Western Sahara, we get to “NO MANS LAND”, which is in fact a barren wasteland with broken down cars between the two borders. We spent some time at the border to get our visas and…

Morocco Medinas, Mazes, Mud, Visa Waits, Bush Camps, and the Absence of Technology…. Morocco seems to always be the hottest tourist destination for just about any person that travels to the North African Countries.  From the combination of the vast treeless deserts, to the rugged Riff and Atlas Mountains, to the densely forested areas surrounding…

Life around Campsites and Bush Camping How does cooking, cleaning, and being around a fire, bring people together? With the rapid takeoff the last 15 years of internet and mobile phones, we have lost the time honored tradition of speaking to each other when we eat. With a lot of families this was a time…

Western Sahara Country, Plot of Land, or Territory?             If you look at any map, Western Sahara appears to be a country.  Is it really a country though? The country is administered by Morocco with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claiming it as its own, but Morocco runs a large…

Gibraltar- A territory of UK stuck in South Spain The start of my Africa trip began on a flight from Uk to Gibraltar for two nights. Although we could not stay in Gibraltar because of the size of our truck, we certainly spent some time there!!!! We stayed in a little tiny campground in Spain…