Author: Hfallon

Ian is our pilot this morning, and we take off from the Solio private grassy airstrip, heading north over the mountains, crossing the equator, and will land at the Sasaab Camp airstrip, one of the sketchiest we have seen so far, but all goes well. As we are all wearing headsets, Ian is able to…

Jutta and I are overwhelmed by the lion sighting last night, but another day dawns, and we have time for a game drive before heading to the airstrip at 11:30……..just the two of us in the plane, so we can be a little late if something good happens. Amos is pumped and ready to go……..5:45am…

We share a van with Kath and Jimmy down to Wilson Airport in Nairobi…..not the big international one…….this is the busiest small airport in the world………little planes running around like it’s the parking lot at Costco, dumping people on the tarmac, and more loading up and taking off all at the same time……..organized chaos but…

The only real hiccup in our travel plans occurred today……..we arrived at Victoria Falls airport knowing we would have a delay for our flight to Nairobi, but we had no idea it would stretch to over three hours……….thought we would be lucky with lounge access……..the lounge in Vic Falls airport is really just a collection…

Leaving Botswana brought a tear to Jutta’s eye……..a very special place…….great people……fantastic wildlife……….we will be going back. However, it’s off to the airstrip for another in our series of bush flights. We have lost count of how many small planes we have been on so far, but we know that this one, with a couple…