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episode 6: A HitchHiker's Guide to Africa - in the 90's
On this episode of 'the Nostalgic Vagabond' podcast, I talk with Tamara Bee.
Tamara is a Canadian / British traveller with 3 decades of adventures and experiences. Her life changed in 1993 when an old school friend convinced her to pack up and embark on an ambitious overland journey across multiple continents from Paris to Cape Town in South Africa. We'll touch on this but mainly recount Tamara's return leg where she hitchhiked back up the coast from South Africa to Nairobi in Kenya. Solo!
In conversation, Tamara reveals that everything really all began when she moved from her home province out west to Banff to work in hospitality (6:00) but it didn't take too much convincing from school mate Casey (10:30) to take on this epic overland journey which was supposed to take only about 6 months but it basically took a year... And then some.
Tamara explains why she decided to hitch back up to Kenya (16:00) and reflects on that time she was lost in Lesotho, (18:10) was propositioned by a guy like Richard Gere did to Julia Roberts in the famous film 'Pretty Woman' (26:15) as well as details of her crazy ordeals in Mozambique (33:30).
Tamara has extensive experience travelling through Africa in the 90s and she's had the Malawia to prove it. (43:30) She's got some great insight on life and times in Nairobi (46:30) too.
This trip was life-changing (48:00) and Tamaras tells of some of the most important lessons (51:30) she learned on this crazy odyssey and how it has shaped her (53:50) travel philosophy...
Enjoy.
You can find out more about Tamara and her journeys on her website.
www.manyroadstravelled.com
She has her own pod too.
A big thanks to Tom Forfar for creating the title tracks for the podcast series.
And, any comments or feedback feel free to email
the_n_v@yahoo.com