I really admire Erik and "AC" for their travels and adventures. Not just talking about it but getting out there and doing it.

I wanted to do something similar but on a smaller scale when in University. I befriended a lot of South Africans whom migrated to Australia to learn as much as I could. The plan was to gain a job through an international organisation I was a member of in South Africa and then holiday North and around. Then at the end blow any savings on extensive travels in Southern Africa. I was offered a job as an economist with a large South African mining company but the pay was abbismal (by South African standards) and I wasn't qualified to do the job anyway (

) so turned it down. These were also the days of apartheid and having South African visas in your passports would cause some problems.

Ended up working in the UK instead. Did manage to take two months off and travel overland from Kenya, via Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Then ran out of money and had to go home and work again.

I enjoy reading Erik's and "AC's" stories of their journeys.

I remember studying a map of Mozambique and a major road finished at a river and started at the other side. The map had instructions in red print that the river could be crossed by "canoe" at that point.