I have the privilege of completing this post while sitting in a beautiful home on a comfy couch, waiting for the potjie on the fire to be ready… Life is good! The South2North team arrived in South Africa on Sunday morning. Taking the Gautrein to Hatfield was such a pleasure. South Africa really feels like a first world country compared to other A...

We are currently busy at our final outreach  point of this 80 day journey. With just 4 days to go, I cannot believe that we are now so close to the end. The last few weeks had gone by so quickly, yet if I think about everything we had experienced and about every person we have met, it feels like a lifetime.

The South2North team spent the past week...

Yet another awesome train journey

Once again I am starting this post while sitting on a train… How lucky can one be? We heard some varied reports about the Kenyan trains and we were unsure if we should take this one from Nairobi to Kisumu. Considering that the road to Kisumu was pretty bad when I took it in June 2010 we decided to give the train a g...

(Thank you very much Malawi…)
I am writing this while listening to one of my favorite sounds: the rhythmic clickety clack of a train, slowly but surely moving to its destination. We have entered Tanzania and are on our way to Dar es Salaam. We will probably reach there by tomorrow evening, well, hopefully. (We already had a break down, one hour...