After South Luangwa, Erika and I smashed head-long into a wall. We were exhausted, having just made a tear through southern Africa, visiting Johannesburg, Harare, Victoria Falls, Livingstone, and South Luangwa in under two weeks, with three safaris in that time. It was time for a break. So we didn’t see Lusaka. We didn’t go out into Lusaka. We didn’t do anything in Lusaka. All we did was rest, recover, and spend time with Erika’s friend, Lindsey, who we visited…
Since Namibia, we’d been chasing that feeling we’d had from doing the self-drive safari. We wanted awesome camping trucks again, and the ability to chart our own path without taking expensive tours. Originally, we were looking to do something really crazy–get awesome camping trucks in Harare, Zimbabwe, drive/camp our way to Victoria Falls, across the border to Zambia, and loop all the way around to Lusaka, Zambia. However, we couldn’t find any reasonable availability for awesome camping trucks. The ones…
“I want a penthouse,” Erika said while looking through AirBnbs for Arequipa. We’d had just about enough of our budget housing for our trip to Machu Picchu, and we wanted something a little nicer again. We still missed our condo in La Paz. “Oooh, forget a penthouse, maybe I want a colonial house!” The sky was the limit for us, apparently. We did settle on that penthouse, and on May 5 we left Cusco and flew to Arequipa, Peru. The AirBnb…
