Five days and counting until my two month Africa solo journey across the second largest continent in the world! This will be my first trip to eastern and southern Africa.  On Friday, South African Airways will fly me via Joburg, South Africa as the locals say and onto Nairobi, Kenya—it’s going to be a looooong couple of days.

I will spend almost a month in Kenya. In early May, I will emerge from the bush, wash the dirt out of my teeth and hair to spend my birthday in Cape Town, South Africa (and no, I won’t tell you how old I am). Then on to Namibia, back to South Africa for Indaba (Africa’s largest trade show) and then a two day rest at Karkloof Spa & Wildlife Reserve (unlimited spa treatments) before heading back into the wild…Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique.