Decompressing. A procedure used to reduce pressure. And a word popularized by some young techno ravers I know. They use it to describe the process of coming down from too much fun. It’s perfect. Descriptive. And with onomatopoeias ring. For me it says exactly what we needed after crossing from Angola through the DRC into …
Overlanding reflection
It always starts this way. The beginning of our day is the call of birdsongs and the din of cicada beckoning in the new dawn. Even before light fills the sky, we hear life calling the day in. And we rise. As one. To sit amongst this life with our coffee. And watch as the …
Kalandula Falls and kindness.
Standing tall and strong before me, Kalandula Falls pushes out its big, bold chest for all the world to see. We watch in awe. It’s mesmerizing. Transfixed as it constantly drops its wide white veil into a roar of thunder. Standing steadfast, proud and true. There is a wisdom in its contours. And it’s sound …
Road tripping across Angola
As I write this I am sitting in my car on Angolan tracks outside the northern town of Mucondo, a stones throw from the border of the DRC. Wild camping. As in camping out in a equatorial forest hidden from the road. Around me I hear frogs and birds and can see the last remnants …
Ten million or more bats
Bats. Straw colored fruit bats. Ten million of them. Said to be the biggest mammal migration on earth. Bigger than annual human migration in the 21st century? Dunno. Maybe. But certainly, in the natural world as a single event, an exceptional annual phenomenon. The bat migration is an event that occurs between late October and …
Africa Overland 