Hubers go Africa

… I’m ready to go, I’m standing here outside the door …. (same song as at the beginning of this blog). A long tour has come to its end. Two months and nearly 8,000 km through four countries in Southern Africa.          Now I’m sitting here at the Airport thinking about the many animals and few…

Coming to the end means first of all caring for Toyo: Cleaning the car from the inside (kilos of sand in every hollow space), the outside (smells like a hybrid of elephant and warthog), treating him to an under carriage wash (salt is gone now) and arranged with the Toyota garage a date to repair…

I have to ask Axel & Team (Merck’s brand champions) to speak to the Impalas (CIO) about their „vibrant M“ and to the South-African winemaker. Ob das Merck’sche Branding-Team die Impalas davon überzeugen kann, dass ihr „M“ auf der Hinterseite nicht „vibrant“ genug ist?  Der Sauvignon wäre dann sicher das kleinere Problem.  

Erongo Mountains are the left-over of a huge, ancient volcano, which erupted about 130 million years ago. Huge granite boulders (formerly lava) are scattered around the landscape as if placed there by mighty powers. Surreal, peculiar and fascinating. We stayed there because of the very different landscape to sand and water (we had enough of…

We continued our journey back to Windhoek under a Bavaria-like white and blue sky. Next stop was Roy’s Camp (creative decoration and an awesome WLAN). Africa is not only adventurous, sometimes it’s just fun – exactly what I need  🙂 Here I met Sigrid, not only an expert in bilingual blogging (www.lowlandcruisers.com) but even more relaxed…

An impressive event nearby Shametu: We spent half a day with the family of a Shametu employee. Grandma (real 21st century grandma with a mobile phone around her neck) taught us to prepare a full meal on the basis of Mahango (a very common type of millet), Mangetti nuts (from the mongongo tree) and some…

Economists call it the fact of diminishing marginal Utility or Gossen’s First Law that makes us feel we have been long enough in Botswana now. Therefore we leave Savute northbound towards Kasane and re-enter Namibia at Ngoma Bridge border post. This “pad” had been a big adventure when we drove it three years ago in…