Fresh off their vows of lifelong commitment and fidelity, Graham and Trish Wales threw themselves into the unknown venture of what was destined to be a classical African overland safari. Almost immediately, things began to go wrong.

Without any prior organization, knowledge, research, or planning (and being guided only by a vague and somewhat arbitrary goal and end destination), the chaos set in before even leaving their arrival city of Cape Town, South Africa. It only got worse from there, as they made their way through a nearly infinite series of unexpected and only sometimes...