June 7 – 9, 2016 I am on location for National Geographic…or at least this is how I imagine it would be. The area of Chobe that I visited was amazing, however it was for day trips. Hwange is full immersion. It is the largest game reserve in Zimbabwe and gained...
June 6, 2016 Thunder. It gets louder and fuller the closer I get. From half a mile away, I can see the mist billowing into the sky. As I pedal through the Zambia border and begin to cross the bridge that connects Zambia to Zimbabwe, the water is pounding 300 ft below...
June 3 - 5, 2016 There’s inevitably that moment that occurs, when you’re pretty sure you’ve done something dumb, and that moment stamps your hunch emphatically as true. This is usually reserved for kids since hopefully as adults we have evolved past this and refined...
June 2, 2016 My plan today to pedal into Namibia. It seemed like a fairly easy task. There is a 30 mile stretch of perfectly paved road, however, that cuts through Chobe National Park, one of the wildest places in Africa (as I wrote about yesterday). To be...
June 1, 2016 I load on a small boat with 6 other people at 3pm for the second half of the Chobe exploration. We embark on a water safari and I hope that I will see some of these elephants that I hear are everywhere. The sun is still high in the sky and the Chobe River...
June 1, 2016 Today I got picked up in an open air Landcruiser at 545 a.m. for the 6 a.m. game drive in Chobe National Park. Chobe is Botswana’s 1st national park and is also one of the most biologically diverse. It boasts one of the most highly concentrated elephant...
The World Spins By is an intimate journey of loss, curiosity, and love—recounted one pedal stroke at a time along Jerry’s two-year bicycle journey back to himself.