"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you long to return." So said Leonardo da Vinci, and there is truth to his words. There is something about travel. Once you start, you cannot stop. It is scary. It forces you out of your comfort zone, which by definition is uncomfortable. And the more adventurous kind of travel puts you way out of your comfort zone. And yet, once you have tasted it, you cannot stop.
Travel through Africa involves the wide open expanses of savanna, punctuated by an occasional Masai, deep valleys, verdant hills, great plains dotted by dignified Baobab trees, huge forest that we drove through for hours, sometimes few other vehicles and sometimes snarled up traffic jams that last for hours, traffic police who seem to outnumber regular people by about two to one.