Overland Truck Tour here we gooooo!!!!!

After a great week in and around Nairobi it was time to meet up with the overland truck tour. This is a semi truck that has been converted into a bus like vehicle, it has massive tires, air shocks and seats way up on the top so you are overlooking everything and everyone. Very cool trucks. I have been on the trip for a little over a week now and there is already so much to tell. The people have been fantastic but whats a great trip without a few party poopers! LOL We started our trip with a three day safari through the Ngorogoro Crater and Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. We saw so many animals up close and personal it was amazing! Some highlights were the heard of elephants literally surrounding us not even ten feet away from our car, hippos, giraffe, rhino, and the best was when we saw lionesses chase and kill a warthog twenty feet away from our car!!!! Then the rest of them, fifteen or so plus a male lion, came walking in between our cars to get to the kill! I got a short video of them tearing the little guy apart, not for the faint of heart but so incredible to see how they do it right there in front of you, no National geographic here!

From there we did a village walk, had some local cuisine, very delicious vegetarian options here by the way, and made our way over to Dar Es Salam. We came over to Zanzibar the other day and spent hours walking around the maze that is the alleys of the city. Oh I forgot I bought some painting, can't wait to get them in frames and up on the wall. At night in Stone Town there is a night market so after cocktails on the beach with a hookah for fun we made our way to the food market for dinner. This was absolutely incredible. Vendors all over the place with every kind of fish kabob, falafel, rice, samosas and my personal favorite their pizza which is basically a crepe with banana, nutella and chocolate on top! The warm water, white sandy beaches here are of course the luxury that we have all been craving after spending long hours on the road and many nights sleeping in our tents along the way.

I am running out of time here, as is what usually happens here, so I'll just wrap it up. I am having a fantastic time here and looking so forward to what is in store for us over the next couple weeks on the tour. I am in great hands with the group and of course our guide, Victor. Although last night we had to send him off to bed from the bar as he had been looking into the bottom of his drink for twenty minutes....we had a grand party on the beach! As always miss you guys, wish you were here and can't wait to tell you more stories and show you pictures!!!!