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  • Welcome to Wandering Footsteps, the travel journal of a nomadic family on an overland trip around the world. With thirty years of travel experience, a round-the-world trip already under our belt, a newly-converted bus, and a new baby in tow, this journey is bound to be interesting! Join us in our global wanderings - we've saved an extra seat just for you!

    - Brittany, Bruno, and Phoenix

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Two days ago I turned thirty. We’d wondered and worried where we would be to celebrate this momentous occasion, but with our nomadic lifestyle, it’s difficult to plan. Chance placed us in Karongi, a town on Rwanda’s stretch of lake Tanganyika. It couldn’t have been a better place to welcome in a new decade!

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  • Brittany Caumette - Dear Christine and David,

    Thank you for reading, sending me birthday wishes, and sharing a travel story of your own! Sounds like you had a luxurious holiday, much like my birthday! 🙂

    Enjoy the humpback whales (jealous!). Bruno sends his best!ReplyCancel

  • Christine and David - Hi, Brittany and Bruno. Thanks so much for your great blog. I love to travel with you from our very comfortable home in Pottsville Beach, Australia. Happy 30th, Brittany. We have just returned from Melbourne, where we spent a week catching up with family and shopping. We stayed in a hotel on St Kilda Rd, a few minutes by tram from the city centre. King sized bed, pillow menu, separate dressing room, city view, great breakfasts. We had sunset drinks on the 55th floor of the Rialto Building, at Lui Bar. David was constantly complaining about the cold. LOL. We’re now back home in the sunshine, back to work. Maybe we’ll have time to do some whale watching from the beach during the week. The humpbacks are heading north to Harvey Bay to calve and they can be seen from here, sometimes quite close in to shore. Best Regards to you both, Christine and David.ReplyCancel

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Victoria Falls might be the most famous waterfall in Zambia, but it’s not the ONLY waterfall worth visiting. Kalambo Falls, on the northern tip of the country, is off the beaten path, allowing for the experience of a single-drop waterfall almost all to yourself.

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  • Brittany Caumette - Thanks a bunch Aggie! I was flat on my stomach to have maximum skin touching surface, so I’m not all that brave after all! How’s Malaysia? You should keep a blog, too!ReplyCancel

  • Anonymous - The picture of you hanging off of that cliff is both scary and amazing 🙂 Wonderful photos in this post, same as in all the others 🙂

    AggieReplyCancel

  • jfred - superbes photos et bien racontés 🙂ReplyCancel

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In an effort to increase audience participation on Wandering Footsteps, I announce the Comment Competition. Read an entry, make a comment, win a prize. Want to participate? Read on!

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  • Freya Gnerre - Reading your blog has helped my through my hum drum days of cleaning out all the collected items of my deceased husband. I so look forward to my freedom to travel and make my own adventures – only a bit tamer than yours due to my old age! I do have a trip planned to Jordan and Israel in October which I can’t wait to do. One of the items on my bucket list. And, I have plenty more planned for the future. Hopefully, your Aunt Louise and I will do some together. In the meantime, I’m truly enjoying your pictures and dialogue – and collecting them all for the future. My big question is…where do you keep all your clothes? You always have something different on. I do want to win the prize! Love, Auntie FreyaReplyCancel

    • Brittany Caumette - Dear Freya,

      Thank you for reading my blog. I am glad it is helping to reorient your brain elsewhere through this trying time. I cannot wait for you to get to Jordan and Israel! We won’t be too far off, making our way through Ethiopia and Sudan by that point, and hopefully taking a boat into Saudi Arabia before journeying through Oman, Iran, and Turkey! I’ll keep writing in the meantime.

      Your name is going in the hat! 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Clayton Roche - Oh you want to hear what I have to say? Well, then, you asked for it. As a fellow vagabond, I appreciate what you do. I like that we met at college, before the vagabonding began. I meet travelers from all over the world, but you’re from home. I remember you explaining, maybe on the sidewalk outside Durand, that you wanted to hang out with lions in nature (I’m paraphrasing) because that’s the only thing that truly holds your interest. This was years before I would catch on, at the time it sounded like a dream far out of my reach (“But how do you pay for it?” and “What about you career” etc.)

    I’m always pleased when I visit your blog, which I do sporadically. I just read your article about your African home on wheels. I had to go live through a few years of grueling work and homestayer life before I would slough off that anxiety for so-called security. Three years ago, my work life reached a climax of insufferability and I escaped to a farm in Hawai’i. What was meant to be a temporary break from my job turned into a year on the islands and I haven’t worked for someone else, or paid a US rent, since.

    I have only lived a few months with the level of freedom and mobility that you have manifested, when I lived on the beaches in Hawai’i. Now I live in Thailand, but I lament my conservative travel style. But if the past is any indication, it will only be a few more years before I’m brave enough to live like you are now. Please, carry on & keep clearing the trail ahead for me! 🙂ReplyCancel

    • Brittany Caumette - Clayton, I’m so glad that you’re out there traveling and living abroad and experiencing the world that I am fortunate enough to see every day! It’s pretty cool that you were able to take the big leap, which gets harder with each passing year. I wish you would keep a blog – I have no idea where exactly you’re living, what you’re doing, what your future travel/life/work plans are! You know that I’m always available if you have questions or ideas you want to run past.

      Until then, thanks for reading and participating in my blog!ReplyCancel

  • Brittany Caumette - I’m commenting on my own blog entry to encourage you to do so as well! But don’t worry, I won’t enter myself in the Comment Competition – I don’t have a fixed address at which to send myself an African card, anyway!ReplyCancel

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Driving in Africa isn’t always as easy as the road-map suggests. There are, after all, many factors to consider – untarred roads, rain and mud – that maps simply cannot take into account. We learned this the hard way in Zambia.

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  • Brittany Caumette - Yes, I remember being called a FARANG all the time! It seems every country has an endearing term for a foreigner!

    We can usually find someone in East Africa who speaks English; though Tanzania was the most difficult. I ended up Learning some Kiswahili words for the local market without even meaning to! In Burundi and Rwanda (where we currently are – yes, I am behind on posts!) there is a lot of French, which also works for us.

    It’s difficult to learn any other language than Kiswahili because each region and village speaks a different tribal language. Thankfully most signs are in English! 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Clayton Roche - Ha, your comment about Muzungu made me laugh, as I can of course relate in Thailand being a “farrang.”

    How is the English there? Have you learned much of the local language? Do they use the English alphabet? I suppose there are many languages..?ReplyCancel