cheers!

we're done! we're still friends! 3.5 months down the drain! we leave tomorrow morning for home (what's one more 48 hour transit?).

thanks for reading. we've really enjoyed writing and hearing from you.

at the end of it all, i think we are both just extremely thankful. most of the people in africa we have met along the way can't afford to see their own country let alone the continent. on top of that we've had safety, amazing experiences, and a deeper friendship. we have been blessed.

see you soon!

"be excellent to each other" - rufus

table mountain, capetown

we made it to the top in record time: 65 minutes (although, somehow there was a father-daughter combo keeping pace with us...and the daughter was about 10 years old.)

hiking the 'wild coast' in south africa

transportation: how to get from livingston to jo'burg

this journey took us 28 hrs. of straight transit. it's possible that over the course of those 28 hrs. we used every mode of transportation that has ever been invented (save rollerskating and ostrich-back). here's a summary:
livingston to kazungula (border town between zam and botswana) by taxi; kazungula to kasane (botswana) by pontoon ferry across the zambezi river; kasane to francistown by tractor trailor; francistown to gaborone (capital of bots) by night train; finally, gabs to jo'burg (s. africa) by mini-bus. once again the transport made for some great stories and experiences. special thanks to patrick, brooke and jarod for letting us hitch all the way to francistown and for treating us with such generosity. no thanks at all to the botswana rail system for "letting" us sleep in the doorways on the floor of your train.

amazing victoria falls

we even saw a "lunar rainbow" in the evening. it happens every full moon. could this be an untapped niagara falls tourism market?

bearded canadian saves frightened chameleon

matt freed this chameleon in front of a crowd of british onlookers in livingston, zambia (he's always doing heroic things like that). its tail was stuck in a crack in the pavement and he is chasing it to the safety of some vegetation.

on the liemba

this is where we slept (on the roof of the back of the boat). the only down side was that people started drying piles of fish on the corrugated metal around us...