From Victoria Falls we were driven across the Botswana border to the Ngoma Safari Camp. overlooking the Chobe River. Across the Chobe river is Namibia, which some people refer to as Nambia. If you have traveled internationally, you know that you get text messages when you enter a new country. We got one in South …
From Mala Mala we went to the nearby Skukuza airport, we got on a small plane, which held only 12 passengers, and flew to Nelspruit, where we got on another plane and flew to Livingstone, Zambia. You have heard of Livingstone. “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Livingstone is the biggest city near Victoria Falls, which is …
Our game drives in Mala Mala have been fabulous! We like giraffes! Giraffes run in a funny way. I am not very skilled as a videographer, and dealing with videos is new to me. Hopefully I have the link to this video working correctly. If not, check back… And zebras and sweet elephants Interesting tail. This …
We have gotten upgrades on airplanes before. Nice, but not that impressive. Larger seats and free drinks. We certainly would have loved an upgrade on our overnight flight to Johannesburg, but that did not happen. Would have been nice, but not spectacular. Well, we did get an upgrade that WAS spectacular. We used Africa Adventure …
We flew from Salt Lake City to Atlanta, and then caught an overnight flight to Johannesburg South Africa. A loooong flight, 15 and a half hours. Depart at 8 PM Atlanta time, and arrive at 5.50 PM Africa time. It was dark when we landed! We stayed in a hotel near the Airport, and we …
You probably have questions. What is a trailer rally? Why would you go to one? Why in Alabama? All in good time. Before we bought our travel trailer, I did a lot of research on the web. One place I still use is a the Fiberglass RV Forum. I saw a post there in November 2016 by …
Read my Valley of the Gods post first. After Valley of the Gods, we next camped at Gouldings, a very nice but rather expensive commercial RV park that is close to Monument Valley. My major complaint was that the campsites were rather close together, but that is common in commercial places. The restrooms were clean, and …
We first camped at Valley of the Gods. This is BLM land, which means the camping is free, and that there are no amenities. No restrooms, no picnic tables. Based on my online research, I had the GPS coordinates for a primo campsite about 7.5 miles in on the dirt road. While we saw decent …