Name:Todd
Hometown: Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Roadtrip Destination: Africa. Twice

Road Trip #1: February 1998 to June 1999
Vehicle: 1980 Toyota Hilux 4x4, converted into what the South Africans call a “Station Wagon” (Aka "Breakfast").
Countries driven through: Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo (illegally), Tanzania, Zanzibar, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar, Swaziland, Lesotho

Road Trip #2: January 2004 to June 2006
Vehicle: 1991 Toyota 4Runner (Aka "Too Much Sweet")
Countries driven through: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Angola (Illegally – Canoed Across the Border), Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, Uganda

Best Places:
·Lalibela Ethiopia – Rock hewn churches – Unbelievably out of this world
-The deserts of Namibia – never knew so much nothing could be so beautiful
-Driving without a guide through the Serengeti
-Luawa Plains, Zambia – it’s a bitch to get there and no one goes.
-Mana Pools, Zimbabwe – The only park in Africa where you can walk amongst the animals without a guide.
-Kenya – it’s so damned cool.

Highs:
·Meeting wife Nicole on the first trip. Meeting Aren and Marieke - two of our now best friends
-Being licked by a lion in my tent
-Seeing wild dogs
-Being charged by a rhino while walking through the bush
-Getting smacked on the arm by an elephant in our tent.
-Seeing a cheetah kill, alone, in the Masi Mara
-Trekking gorillas in Uganda
-Swimming with whale sharks and mantas in Mozambique

Lows:
-Having our first truck stolen. Twice.
Trying to get the truck out of Ethiopia
-Blowing the gearbox in a small town in Malawi, 8 days before friends were arriving two countries away.

Photo #1: Our truck in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya (1st trip)
Photo #2: Our truck being off-loaded from the ferry across lake Victoria in Tanzania (2nd trip)