Cairo to Cape Town

France :: Egypt :: Eritrea :: Ethiopia :: Kenya-2 :: Uganda :: Tanzania-2 :: Zanzibar :: Malawi-2 :: Moambique :: Zimbabwe-2-3-4 :: Botswana-2-3 :: Zambia-2-3 :: Namibia :: South Africa-2 :: Madagascar

1998 | March :: April :: May :: June :: July :: August :: September :: October :: November :: December

1999 | January :: February :: March :: Asia

Breakfast :: Hydroplane :: Breakfast Breakdowns

March 1998

1998-03-04

7:00P — Air France flight 61 (B742)
Los Angeles, CA — Charles de Gaull, Paris, France

1998-03-05

Arrive evening, drop off bags at Ducks 3 Hostel, and immediately procede to Eiffel Tower. Then we went to the Le Café du Commerce (51 Rue du Commerce) and this is where the imfamous “This is not duck this is beef” only-restaurant-open aleged scam happened which ultimately turned out to be my bad and where I ended up with dried chicken instead of succulent duck.

1998-03-06

Toulouse; woke up in Paris; visited the Louvre. 4pm train to Toulouse. Nice dinner with Tina, some wine.

1998-03-07

Toulouse; beautiful bike ride

1998-03-08

Biking all day and crepes on the square

1998-03-09

I buy a billet for SNCF TGV train 8586, voiture 18, place 47, classe 2, for Fr 320.00. I depart Gare de Toulouse-Matabiau at 5:18pm and head north toward Paris. We arrive to Gare Montparnasse at 10:35pm. I meet up with Todd and we walk around Paris at night.

March 1998

1998-03-10

Cairo (1) — Nortre Dam in the morning.
1:45P — Air France flight 504
Paris, France — Le Caire, Egypt; Minerva Hotel located on the fifth floor of an old colonial building that has gone to seed

1998-03-11

Cairo (2) — Wake up late (4:30p); demanded breakfast but to no avail

1998-03-12

Cairo (3) — Mosque of Mohamid Ali; walk through Islamic Cairo; 2nd hand market; Todd eats meat off the street; our sell-perfume-for-5-times-the price scam; evening Nile cruise

1998-03-13

Cairo (4) — Wake up late; Egyptian museum and the Royal Mummies Hall; pyramids; dinner of pigeon with Mr. Gerges and Tiger

1998-03-14

Training — City of the Dead; Mosque of Ibn Tulun, met Ed, the crazy Dutch man; midnight train to Luxor

1998-03-15

Luxor — Todd’s Birthday; Karnac; Ride around at night

1998-03-16

Luxor — We meet Cyndi at our hotel. Together the three of us try to find jobs on a Nile river floatel. I say I will play music. We are declined.

1998-03-17

Training — We tour Luxor in the day and see the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens & Nakht, the Tomb of Mena; train to Cairo; bus to Suez; all day delay; wrote “Sometimes” ; mini van to Tarabin

1998-03-18

Tarabin — Met the guy that biked to Libya. This guy nonchalantly got on his bike, the way you and I might ride to the beach, and biked all the way to Libya

1998-03-19

Tarabin

1998-03-20

Dahab (1) — Arrived by taxi in the backway

1998-03-21

Dahab (2) — Dahab relax

1998-03-22

Dahab (3) — Open water dive 1 — Lighthouse

1998-03-23

Dahab (4) — Open water dive 2,3 — Lighthouse

1998-03-24

Dahab (5) — Open water dive 4 — the Canyon; received Open Water Diver certificate from Adventure Dive Club, Dahab

1998-03-25

Dahab (6) — Drift dive 5- Eel Gardens to Lighthouse; saw sea turtle; fan coral

1998-03-26

Dahab (7) — Advanced naturalist dive 6 — the Islands; saw the following: common goldfish; wiasses; parrot fish; queen angle; bluefish; kiwi coral; lettuce coral; mushroom coral; brain coral; sea anemone.
Advanced navigation dive 7 — Lighthouse; no visibility; basically a failed dive, but fun

1998-03-27

Dahab (8) — Advanced dive 30 meters 8 — the Canyon.
This is where I wrote the classic postcard

1998-03-28

Dahab (9) — Advanced night dive 9 — Lighthouse; saw lobster; octopus; porcipine fish; eels; sticky cucumber

1998-03-29

Dahab (10) — Advanced multi-level dive 10 — Blue Hole; incredible.
Free Dive 11 — the Canyon; in the fish bowl; millions of glass fish; received Advanced Diver certificate from Adventure Dive Club, Dahab

1998-03-30

Mt. Sanai summit — worried about getting the bends. Damn cold and damn good

1998-03-31

Na’ama Bay — Free Dive 12 — Abu Helal; the dive where I became a fan. Bus to Na’ama Bay

April 1998

1998-04-01

Na’ama Bay — Thistlegorn — Sha’ab Ali Dive 13 (outside), 14 (inside); sunken WWII British cargo ship (hit October 6, 1941).
Stingray Station Dive 15 — Ras Mohamed, Sanai

1998-04-02

Dahab (11) — relaxation in Na’ama Bay; Egypt Air various price scam; fuck-this-place-bus-back-to-Dahab

1998-04-03

Cairo; Early, yet lagging, all day bus to Cairo

1998-04-04

Egypt Air ticket meltdown; last day Cairo leave at 3:15am (April 5)

April 1998

1998-04-05

Asmara (1) — Arrived at 5am via Egypt Air; walked around town market; Chinese restaurant

1998-04-06

Asmara (2) — Ethiopian visa; walk to south of town.

1998-04-07

Ghindi — Rented NIVA 1600

1998-04-08

Masawa (1) my birthday with Sylvana & Ulda; fish at Salama’s

1998-04-09

Masawa (2) — Gurgusom beach day; fish at Salama’s

1998-04-10

Masawa (3) — wandered around town; the harbor/no passport incident; the pakistani grain ship; fish at Salama’s

1998-04-11

Keren (1) — 2 bus trips; neat night rest stop

1998-04-12

Keren (2) — The mountain hike with kids; boom

1998-04-13

Keren (3) — The Monday livestock market

1998-04-14

Adi Kala

April 1998

1998-04-15

Adwa

1998-04-16

Axum

1998-04-17

Axum; hike to the church; visited the stelae; bathing grounds of the Queen of Sheba

1998-04-18

Axum; bucket shower; Easter services all night

1998-04-19

Shiray; 6:00am bus to Shiray; hotel overpriced scam; see Easter ceremonies on the way; hike to hill top; meet man with gun

1998-04-20

Adi Arkay — the Ethiopian Tina; coldest beer in the village

1998-04-21

Debark — the famed Lorry day

1998-04-22

Debark — the chill out day

1998-04-23

Debark — the Austrain training park visit

1998-04-24

Gondar — 6:00am bus; Johanes shows us around; walk to the famous Debre Berhan Selassie Church and saw the angels painted on the ceiling

1998-04-25

Gondar —

1998-04-26

Lalibela, the “You are weak.”

1998-04-27

Lalibela, day 1 of the tour

1998-04-28

Lalibela, day 2 of the tour

1998-04-29

Bahir Dar — Ghion Hotel; the 30-birr-to-the airport-we-will-walk-instead scam

1998-04-30

Bahir Dar — Ghion Hotel; explored the Blue Nile Falls near Tis Abbay

May 1998

1998-05-01

Addis Ababa (1) — Larium Day, flew into Addis today. Stay at Park Hotel

1998-05-02

Addis Ababa (2) — Park Hotel

1998-05-03

Addis Ababa (3) — Park Hotel

1998-05-04

Addis Ababa (4) — The “Buy Breakfast” day. Today we attempt to buy in Addis Ababa, on May 4, 1998, two months after a famed Egypt Air flight, a 1980 White Toyota Hilux small truck for an African Overland Adventure, with a rebuilt Ford V6 engine. Your joking, right? No…

1998-05-05

Addis Ababa (5) — Park Hotel

1998-05-06

Addis Ababa (6) — Park Hotel

1998-05-07

Addis Ababa (7) — Park Hotel

1998-05-08

Addis Ababa (8) — Park Hotel

1998-05-09

Addis Ababa (9) — Park Hotel

1998-05-10

Addis Ababa (10) — Park Hotel

1998-05-11

Lake Langano — We try to drive out of the Park Hotel but are stopped by staff. They are threatening to call the police. Turns out one of our passengers, Greg, has stolen a blanket. It takes about 30 minutes to sort out the mess but eventually we do. We drive out of town and bush camp next to the lake. Our first night with Breakfast. As soon as we set up camp, several Ethiopians come out of the bushes and watch us. They become our night watchman, something that happens most every night moving forward.

1998-05-12

Araba Minch — Arrive after dark without headlights; it was here where we named our truck ‘Breakfast’ in honor of a nice poster hanging in the kitch. We ate fish for dinner both nights

1998-05-13

Arba Minch, swimming down in the valley, ate fish

1998-05-14

Konso, drive all day, make Potjie

1998-05-15

Jinka, arrive late, make Potjie

1998-05-16

Jinka, the turn off the water after 1 week no shower scam

1998-05-17

Burge, the steep hill, bush camp, shit scare day

1998-05-18

Mega, warm fresh bread, bush camp, near border

1998-05-19

Moyale, silencer falls of exaust system

May 1998

1998-05-20

Moyale (Kenya side), No cross border scam

1998-05-21

Marsabit, 6am to 8pm, 14 hours of neck-jarring road along the East African Trans-continental hyway

1998-05-22

Archer’s Post

1998-05-23

Chuka

1998-05-24

Chuka

1998-05-25

Nairobi (1) — Dinner at the Carnivore

1998-05-26

Nairobi (2) — The day we met Greg and the toiletpaper

1998-05-27

Nairobi (3)

1998-05-28

Nairobi (4)

1998-05-29

Nairobi (5)

1998-05-30

Nairobi (6) — The food poisoning day

1998-05-31

Nairobi (7) — Our meningitus shot at the Nairobi hospital

June 1998

1998-06-01

Nairobi (8) — Madaraka Day; We had over to the Carnivore for dancing, bonfires and good times

1998-06-02

Nairobi (9)

1998-06-03

Nairobi (10)

1998-06-04

Naivasha — Played frisbee; saw the yawning hippo

1998-06-05

Naivasha — Crater Lake Game Park

1998-06-06

Lake Nakuru National Park

1998-06-07

Hell’s Gate National Park

1998-06-08

Eldorate — Naiberi River Campsite; made the mashed potatoes in the cool camp by the riverside

1998-06-09

Eldorate Overland — Naiberi River Campsite

1998-06-10

Eldorate — Kip Keino’s place

1998-06-11

Eldorate — Kip Keino’s place

1998-06-12

Eldorate — Kip Keino’s place (?)

1998-06-13

Kitale — Safari Place

1998-06-14

Eliye Springs, Lake Turkana

1998-06-15

Eliye Springs, Lake Turkana

1998-06-16

Bush Camp, Turkana

1998-06-17

Turkwell Gorge — Lodwa omlette

1998-06-18

Turkwell Gorge

1998-06-19

Total Gas Staion with Joseph

June 1998

1998-06-20

Jinji — crossed at Malaba; camped at Bujagali Falls

1998-06-21

Jinja — Sunday; banks closed

1998-06-22

Kampala (1)

1998-06-23

Kampala (2)

1998-06-24

Kampala (3)

1998-06-25

Kampala (4)

1998-06-26

The wied “no menu” place

1998-06-27

Bwindi Impenetrable

1998-06-28

Bwindi Impenetrable

1998-06-29

Bwindi Impenetrable

1998-06-30

Bwindi Impenetrable

July 1998

1998-07-1

Bwindi Impenetrable

1998-07-02

Bwindi Impenetrable

1998-07-03

Bwindi Impenetrable — Todd and I track the gorillas today in the dense forest

1998-07-04

Bwindi Impenetrable — Greg and Nicole track the gorillas

1998-07-05

Lake Bunyoni

1998-07-06

Kampala (5)

1998-07-07

Kampala (6)

1998-07-08

Kampala (7) — Lake Victoria

1998-07-09

Jinja

1998-07-10

Jinja — The Nile river rafting trip

July 1998

1998-07-10

The stalled-at-lunch-border crossing

1998-07-11

Kakamega — Stayed with Nick, the Ornithologist

1998-07-12

Eldorat — The Breakfast-spin-out-inncident; Kip Keino’s place (World Cup; Confirmed Date)

1998-07-13

Lake Bogoria — millions of flamingoes; bushcamp in the middle of herds of zebra

1998-07-14

Nairobi (11) — Tuesday Masai Market

1998-07-15

Nairobi (12) — Nicole leaves for Europe; Todd drinks

1998-07-16

Lake Magadi Camp

1998-07-17

Nairobi (13) — Greg kicked rock in my eye in the early morning; Masia market; engine makes wierd noises

1998-07-18

Amboseli — “HP Sauce!”

July 1998

1998-07-19

Arusha — Masai Camp

1998-07-20

Arusha — Masai Camp

1998-07-21

Ngorongoro Crater — the drive out

1998-07-22

Ngorongoro Crater attempt

1998-07-23

Ngorongoro Crater

1998-07-24

Arusha — Morning drive from Crater; retread tyre scam

1998-07-25

Traveler’s Lodge and Camp — The bag-on-Brian-Brian-goes-to-bed-early-night

1998-07-26

Dar es Salaam — Silver Sands Hotel

July 1998

1998-07-27

Dar es Salaam → Zanzibar
Catamaran Passenger Cruiser
Africa Shipping Corporation LTD.
PO Box 3231 Zanzibar, Tanzania
Fare $15 (first class) + Port Tax $5
Stone Town — Arrive, find hotel, wander, sunset at night market

1998-07-28

Stone Town — Change money, dry clean adventure, Kate’s sarong buying escapade, sunset at night market

1998-07-29

Stone Town — Spice Tour in the rain, night market

1998-07-30

Stone Town — Today we wander, I get lost, meet Jocelyn at the night market

1998-07-31

Stone Town — The trip to the beach on the other side of the island. I get lost wandering home at night

August 1998

1998-08-01

At sea — Hook up with George, the Polish sailor and Bossman and their Black Diamond 52 foot double mast sailboat. Great connection. Clear customs and sail out of Stone Town at sunset after shopping and one final walk through Stone Town. Goodbye Zanzibar

August 1998

1998-08-02

Dar es Salaam — Wake on the Black Diamond; Deserted Island; Silver Sands Hotel

1998-08-03

Dar es Salaam — Silver Sands Hotel; The Chigger Incident

1998-08-04

Kisolanza Farm Camp, Iringa, made blackberry jam

1998-08-05

The Tanzanian 2 km/hr over the speed limit radar gun scam

August 1998

1998-08-05

Karango — Cross into Malawi (Songwe Border); sleep in the Karango Courtyard

1998-08-06

Korango — car won’t start, rebuild Breakfast’s alternator, eat fried chambo fish, yum

1998-08-07

Livingstonia — Drive to Chitimba, first dip into Lake Malawi, see friends at overland stop, drive up to Livingstonia.
US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombed

1998-08-08

Nkhata Bay (1) — Begin clicking, drive to Mzuzu, and then on to Nkhata Bay, Africa Bay Backpackers, clicking getting worse

1998-08-09

Nkhata Bay — the gear box has failed, jerry died 3 yrs ago, my god, are what are all those parts doing all over the place

1998-08-10

Nkhata Bay (2) — market

1998-08-11

Nkhata Bay (3) — bought the teak pipe

1998-08-12

Nkhata Bay (4) — Murray Powers

1998-08-13

Nkhata Bay (5) — stoned

1998-08-14

Nkhata Bay (6) — gear box finished, bought the Fish Chair.
Maula Tyre Fitters and General Repairs
Prop L.D. Kamanga
PO Box 2 Nkhata Bay

1998-08-15

Nkhata Bay (7) — Party

1998-08-16

Leave Africa Bay, eat small, fried bird in Salima, go to Lilongwe and camp at a house, nice dinner

1998-08-17

Awaken in Lilongwe with ants infestation, get Moçambique Visa, drive to Mwanza at Malawi/Moçambique border

1998-08-18

Wake up at 5:00am, exit Malawi (Mwanza border), 6:00am

August 1998

1998-08-18

Tete Corridor 7:00am — 10:30am (Cuchamano border)

August 1998

1998-08-18

Harare — Enter Zim (Nyamapanda border) at 11:30am, eat lunch at some random gas station, try to change money, meet Chris T. at the airport at 1:30pm, go meet up with Aren & Marieke

1998-08-19

Harare, meet the Mies and Roland at the airport, get drunk that night

1998-08-20

Harare, my backpack gets stolen early in the morning; play tennis

1998-08-21

Harare, play tennis

1998-08-22

Harare — bought travelers checks at the mall; Aren’s roof rack trouble; Brian’s freak dance on top of the car

1998-08-23

Photo Developing, bought 10 rt tickets to Madagascar

1998-08-24

Bulawayo — Nicole rejoins the group

1998-08-25

Matopos

1998-08-26

Matopos

1998-08-27

Hwange — Main Camp

1998-08-28

Hwange — Sinamatella Camp

1998-08-29

Hwange — Masuma Dam

1998-08-30

Hwange — Masuma Dam

September 1998

1998-09-01

Hwange — Robbins Camp — Greg freak-out day

1998-09-02

Victoria Falls (1); High Tea

1998-09-03

Victoria Falls (2); Mies and I go to the falls

1998-09-04

Victoria Falls (3); Zambezi River Rafting

1998-09-05

Victoria Falls (4); Zambia go-comeback

September 1998

1998-09-05

Victoria Falls — Zambia side

September 1998

1998-09-05

Victoria Falls (4); Zambia go-comeback

September 1998

1998-09-06

Chobe National Park; enter Botswana (Kazungula Road border); camped by river; baboons stole our avocados

1998-09-07

Chobe; the day of the Breakfast/Leo breakdown; bush camped on the side of the road

1998-09-08

Botswana army rescue

September 1998

1998-09-08

Victoria Falls (5); enter Zimbabwe (Kazungula border); Leo tows Breakfast to Vic Falls; party at Down Under

1998-09-09

Victoria Falls (6)

1998-09-10

Victoria Falls (7) — Greg and Bass leave the group

1998-09-11

Victoria Falls (8) — Jocelyn leaves the group

1998-09-12

Victoria Falls (9)

1998-09-13

Bulawayo

1998-09-14

Kyle Recreation Center

1998-09-15

Kyle Recreation Center

1998-09-16

Harare (10)

1998-09-17

Harare (11)

1998-09-18

Harare (12)

1998-09-19

Harare (13)

1998-09-20

Harare (14)

1998-09-21

Harare (15)

1998-09-22

Harare (16)

1998-09-23

Harare (17)

1998-09-24

Chinhoyi — Drive from Harare to Chinhoyi; The nice dinner night

1998-09-25

Matusadona (1) — Arrive after dark

1998-09-26

Matusadona (2) — Canoe and mud/elephant dung fight

1998-09-27

Matusadona (3) — Tashinga Camp; Fishing and bush baby walk

1998-09-28

Matusadona (4 ) - Tashinga Camp

1998-09-29

Karoi, Caravan Park

1998-09-30

Mana Pools (1) — Drive from Karoi, Caravan Park to Nyamepi Campground, Mana pools

October 1998

1998-10-01

Mana Pools (2) -

1998-10-02

Mana Pools (3)

1998-10-03

Mana Pools (4) — the day of the Bushwalk

1998-10-04

Mana Pools (5)

1998-10-05

Exit Zimbabwe (Chirundu border) — Last morning game drive out

October 1998

1998-10-05

Kufue River Gorge — Camp Pretorius

1998-10-06

Kufue Gorge — Camp Pretorius The mosquito bite that give me malaria; boat ride on river

1998-10-07

Lusaka (1) — Euraka Campsite

1998-10-08

Lusaka (2) — Euraka Campsite; Thr

1998-10-09

Chisamba — the drive up to Chisamba; stay at the Fringilla Campsite

1998-10-10

Chisamba — The Dutch anniversary; Stay at Fringilla Campsite

1998-10-11

Lusaka (3) — Euraka Campsite; Zambian multiple entry visa scam, Lusaka regional immigration office

1998-10-12

Lusaka (4) — Euraka Campsite — Chris leaves the group, the breakfast-is-rushed-my-hiking-boots-get-stolen scam

1998-10-13

Kacholola — Drove from Lusaka to here, stayed at the Kacholola Motel

1998-10-14

Exit Zambia (Mwami border)

October 1998

1998-10-14

Lilongwe, Golf Club — Enter Malawi (Mchinji border); stay at the Golf Club; 4X4 sign pic; chatted with guy who worked 7 days per week excpet Christmas

1998-10-15

Senga Bay (1) — Woke in Lilongwe, drive to Livingstonia Hotel campground; listened to Culture Live over and over; Todd sick; Livingstonia Hotel, cashed travelers check maybe this is the receipt for that:
Commercial Bank of Malawa, Ltd.
Capital City Branch — Lilongwe 3
15 Oct 1998.
Convert US $200 at rate 41.69 to Kw 8,338.12 — 110.20 commision = Kw 8,227.92
Question: Why is this from Lilongwe on this day?

1998-10-16

Senga Bay (2) — Steps Campsite (Livingstonia Hotel)

1998-10-17

Nkhata Bay (8) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-18

Nkhata Bay (9) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-19

Nkhata Bay (10) — Africa Bay Backpackers; Brian is malarious

1998-10-20

Nkhata Bay (11) —Africa Bay Backpackers; Brian is malarious

1998-10-21

Nkhata Bay (12) — Africa Bay Backpackers; Brian is malarious

1998-10-22

Nkhata Bay (13) — Africa Bay Backpackers; Brian is malarious

1998-10-23

Nkhata Bay (14) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-24

Nkhata Bay (15) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-25

Nkhata Bay (16) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-26

Nkhata Bay (17) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-27

Nkhata Bay (18) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-28

Nkhata Bay (19) — Marieke’s Birthday; campfire on the beach

1998-10-29

Nkhata Bay (20) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-30

Nkhata Bay (21) — Africa Bay Backpackers

1998-10-31

Nkhata Bay (22) — Africa Bay Backpackers

November 1998

1998-11-01

Senga Bay (3) — Steps Campsite; Pack up in Nkhata Bay; visit and say goodbye to Leonard

1998-11-02

Senga Bay (4) — Steps Campsite; fishing boat village excursion; you buy mangos scam

1998-11-03

Wake in Senga Bay, Steps Campsite, Exit Malawi, Enter Zambia visit National Park Headquarters in Chipata (Mchinji border)

November 1998

1998-11-03

Chitapa — Enter Zambia (Mwami border) the free camping place at National Park Headquarters

1998-11-04

Mfuwe Gate, Flatdogs Camp — Drive from Chipata into South Luangwa; cashed travelers check at park gate; great Game Drive day

1998-11-05

Petauke — Nyika Motel — Explore South Luangwa; exit park; drive on the neat off-road adventure; Zambian moon; end in Petuke Hotel; chicken and chips

1998-11-06

Lusaka (5) — Eureka Campsite

1998-11-07

Lusaka (6) — Eureka Campsite

1998-11-08

Kafue National Park attempt — Woke in Lusaka; cashed travelers check at bank; drove to Kafue National Park; Brian doesn’t pay park entrance

1998-11-09

Lusaka (7) — Eureka Campsite; woke in Kafue; broke coil spring; drove back to Lusaka

1998-11-10

Lusaka (8) — Eureka Campsite

1998-11-11

Livingstone — Jolly Boys backpackers; woke in Lusaka, fixed coil springs, drove on

1998-11-12

Livingstone — Jolly Boys backpackers — Swam Devil’s Pool on edge of Vic Falls

1998-11-13

Cross into Zimbabwe

November 1998

1998-11-13

Victoria Falls — Shopping, met the store guard with all the badges and metals

November 1998

1998-11-14

Enter Botswana (Kazungula border); drove several k’s; exit Botswana (Ngoma border)

November 1998

1998-11-14

Katima Mulilo — Enter Namibia (Ngoma border); Sleep at the Zambezi Lodge Campsite, Katima M. Shell

1998-11-15

Mudumu National Park, Nakatwa Camp

1998-11-16

Mamili National Park, Lyadura bush camp; Sangwali village and pic of house

1998-11-17

West Caprivi Game Reserve bush camp; leopard tortoise road find enroute near Kongola

1998-11-18

Rundu — Sarasungu River Lodge; Golf; the gear box breaks again; epic sunset of the year award

1998-11-19

Otjiwarongo — Acacia Park Rest Camp; stop in Grootfontein

1998-11-20

Windhoek — Chameleon Backpackers; FN Bank of Namibia

1998-11-21

Windhoek —

1998-11-22

Windhoek —

1998-11-23

Windhoek — bought stamps at Post Office

1998-11-24

Windhoek — Hospital, malaria test, pharmacy

1998-11-25

Windhoek

1998-11-26

Windhoek

1998-11-27

Namib — Naukluft Park

1998-11-28

Sossusvlei

1998-11-29

Remote “the-sky-is-the-limit-i’m-going-to-have-my-own-potjie” campground

1998-11-30

Swakapmund

December 1998

1998-12-01

Swakapmund

1998-12-02

Swakapmund

1998-12-03

Swakapmund

1998-12-04

Windhoek

1998-12-05

Windhoek

1998-12-06

Windhoek

1998-12-07

Windhoek — developed photos

1998-12-08

Windhoek

1998-12-09

Windhoek

1998-12-10

Windhoek

1998-12-11

Windhoek

1998-12-12

Windhoek

1998-12-13

Windhoek

December 1998

1998-12-14

Enter Botswana (Mamono border)
Slept at the gas station with the brutal lightning storm

1998-12-15

Exit Botswana (Ramatlabama border)

December 1998

1998-12-15

Johanesburg — Enter South Africa (Ramatlabama border)

1998-12-16

Johanesburg

1998-12-17

Johanesburg

1998-12-18

Johanesburg

1998-12-19

Exit South Africa — Johannesburg International Airport

December 1998

1998-12-19

Antananarivo — Air Madagascar

1998-12-20

Antananarivo

1998-12-21

Antananarivo

1998-12-22

Analamazaotra (Perinet) — Brokedown mini-van taxi to the track the legendary indiri lemur; go on a night hike and see a red grasshopper; sleep at Hotel Buffet de la Gare — an old railway station

1998-12-23

Antananarivo — Day hike in Perinet; Parson’s Chameleon; yellow grasshopper; Mies & Wouter arrive

1998-12-24

Antananarivo

1998-12-25

Antananarivo

1998-12-26

Antsirabe

1998-12-27

Antsirabe

1998-12-28

Fianarantsoa — The Wine tour

1998-12-29

Ihosey

1998-12-30

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the Life, oh Life ride

1998-12-31

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort

January 1999

1999-01-01

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the day of rest

1999-01-02

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — the scuba diving day

1999-01-03

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort — take the sailboat down the coast; eat fish in village

1999-01-04

Ifaty, Mora Mora Resort

1999-01-05

Toliara, Chez Micheline Rest House

1999-01-06

Isalo

1999-01-07

Isalo

1999-01-08

Fianarantsoa

1999-01-09

Fianaransoa

1999-01-10

Ranamofana — The hotel burn down, move to other hotel night

1999-01-11

Ranamofana — The massage and hot pool day; Hotely Ravinala

1999-01-12

Ranamofana — The Dutch arrive; Hotely Ravinala

1999-01-13

Ranamofana — Hotely Ravinala

1999-01-14

Antananarivo

1999-01-15

Antananarivo

January 1999

1999-01-16

Johanesburg — Enter South Africa — Johannesburg International Airport

1999-01-17

Kruger

1999-01-18

Kruger -Yazee marathon with dung beetles

1999-01-19

Kruger

1999-01-20

Pretoria (1)

1999-01-21

Pretoria (2)

1999-01-22

Pretoria (3)

1999-01-23

Pretoria (4)

1999-01-24

Pretoria (5)

1999-01-25

Pretoria (6) — The Todd’s leave

1999-01-26

 

1999-01-27

 

1999-01-28

 

1999-01-29

 

1999-01-30

 

1999-01-31

 

February 1999

1999-02-01

 

1999-02-02

The Lion Farm

1999-02-03

The Lion Farm

1999-02-04

 

1999-02-05

Orange River

1999-02-06

Orange River

1999-02-07

Coleburg

1999-02-08

The South African Farmhouse

1999-02-09

Port Eliazbeth

1999-02-10

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-11

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-12

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-13

Jeffery's Bay

1999-02-14

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-15

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-16

Jeffery’s Bay

1999-02-17

Knysna

1999-02-18

Knysna

1999-02-19

Wilderness

1999-02-20

Cape Town — Stans Halt Youth Hostel

1999-02-21

Cape Town — Stans Halt Youth Hostel

1999-02-22

Cape Town — Stans Halt Youth Hostel

1999-02-23

Cape Town — Stans Halt Youth Hostel

1999-02-24

Cape Town — Anamaz Backpackers — Dutch leave, hang out with people I met at Swakopmund. Dutch go to Paarl.

1999-02-25

Cape Town -Anamaz Backpackers

1999-02-26

Cape Town — Moved to the Carnaby

1999-02-27

Cape Town — The Carnaby

1999-02-28

Cape Town

March 1999

1999-03-01

Cape Town — Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-02

Cape Town — Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-03

Cape Town — Wine tour to Stellenbash

1999-03-04

Cape Town, Table Mountain with Jessie (ticket stub)

1999-03-05

Hermanus — I take the Baz Bus for R120.00 with Jessi and friend to Hermanus with Jessi

1999-03-06

Cape Town — I take the Baz Bus back to the Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-07

Cape Town — Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-08

Cape Town — Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-09

Cape Town — Carnaby Backpacker

1999-03-10

Cape Town — My last night in Africa; walked around the waterfront

1999-03-11

Exit South Africa (Cape Town International Airport); fly to Johannesburg; fly over Madagascar; fly over Maritius; land in Malaysia — but that’s a different story