TOP TO TIP
Discovering The Length Of Africa
A
s I look back to the end of a
trip of a lifetime at Cape Aru-
gulas, South Africa, the jour-
ney that was officially started
in Nordkapp, Norway, the last
remaining navigable piece of
land, and road, in Europe. Peering
north into nothing but the expanse of
the blue sea, I truly had no idea what
Europe and Africa had in store for me
as I headed south.
It was in this undetermined mo-
ment that I met several travellers mak-
ing the physical connection to the last
outcropping of stone cliffs that peered
into the abyss of the North Sea. I won-
dered how many people, over thou-
sands of years, had similar thoughts
when being presented with the wide
open ocean, or the unknown land,
that lie ahead. Where they were head-
ed, why they were going, and their in-
dividual stories, I did not know, but I
knew I had my own personal goal of
making it to Cape Arugulas, South Af-
rica – alive, in one piece, to arrive sev-
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