Well, it
has been a while. So much so, that I’m not sure where to start! I kept a blog
when I took an overland trip from Cairo to Cape Town in 2011. Now I’m about to
embark on a new adventure and due to several requests from family and friends,
I am starting up the blog again. This is the “test run” blog entry to check
that I can still remember how to string a sentence together and that my log in
works!!
As most of
you will know, I have a huge love affair with the African continent so it will
come as no surprise to learn that this is where I am headed once again. Having
visited 16 of the 54 African countries, this next trip will take in a few more.
(And yes, I did just google “number of African countries” to find that out!).
This trip will focus on West Africa, beginning in Ghana on 1st Feb
and finishing in Morocco at the beginning of May. As the itinerary stands, I
will be travelling from Ghana, through Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea,
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, and Western
Sahara before reaching Morocco. For more info, visit www.overlandingwestafrica.com who I will be travelling with.
If my next
adventure interests you (or horrifies you which seems to me a common reaction),
then feel free to follow the blog.
Off to
complete the dreaded packing now and I leave you with this quote…
“Africa changes you
forever, like nowhere on earth. Once you have been there, you will never be the
same. But how do you begin to describe its magic to someone who has never felt
it? How can you explain the fascination of this vast, dusty continent, whose
oldest roads are elephant paths? Could it be because Africa is the place of all
our beginnings, the cradle of mankind, where our species first stood upright on
the savannahs of long ago?"
Brian Jackman
