We finished an excellent Kalahari safari with our hosts Adrian and Rentia of African Bush Adventures (terrific hosts and superb guides), but as always it is a drag to go home. After a month of working out the kinks and finally feeling organized camping in the bush, it’s time to leave. All that practice gone to waste.

So from our Backpackers room in Cape Town with its sunny yellow walls and wonderful view of Table Mountain we pondered where to go on the next trip. The options piled up. I dislike too many options. Instead of choosing between many, why not see it all? What would that look like? What would we need? It won’t be eazepeezelemonsqueeze, as my brother in Oz would say, we were pretty sure of that. We hatched the beginning of the plan that morning in Cape Town – go home, save $$ and come back asap to stay for a couple of years.

So is this just a southern Africa road trip? Should we circumnavigate the continent? Which direction?  What did we want to accomplish? The word accomplish makes it sound like a check box on a list. Better to think day to day and not worry too much about accomplishing much beyond a cup of coffee and a nice view in the morning.

How much time would it take us to save the money, research and purchase an overland rig, and have all the necessary documents prepared? Hard to say then, but now it’s almost here.