ON THE ROOF IN AFRICA

NAMIBIA & BOTSWANA

The Travelling Hobos are actually a UK couple who were firmly planted in England’s suburbia. Like so many people, they had become tired of the seemingly never ending treadmill of a nine to five existence that many of us so often feel we are on.

Deciding that the call of their pending mid life crisis shouldn’t remain unanswered they came to the conclusion that, at least once in their lives, they needed to embark upon a ‘proper adventure’. However, although they wanted adventure, being British they needed whatever they did to fall firmly into the category of ‘just enough adventure’, rather than cross the line into the undesirable ‘too much adventure’ category.

Putting the rat race on hold they escaped and traded their comfortable and conventional UK lives to embark upon their hastily chosen trip of driving themselves across Southern Africa and back!

This naive decision resulted in them leaving the security of their longstanding jobs for a budget restricted overland life, living out of their car and sleeping on the roof whilst on their independent and unplanned Safari. Their year long venture traversed Africa from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean on the West coast of the continent to the Indian Ocean on the East coast and back again. Starting in Namibia and crossing Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and returning to Namibia via South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

Whilst, by their own admission, they are not naturally gifted authors they felt compelled to document the trip in their book “On The Roof In Africa”, which provides an entertaining and humorous account of their exploits, some of their closer shaves with the native wildlife falling firmly into the category of ‘too much adventure’.

This publication is all about the early part of their travels in Namibia & Botswana and crossing into Zambia.