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Yeah, we travel in convoy also...some places are too dangerous for a single vehicle. Breaking down in outback/wilderness Australia unsupported often means dying. I prefer to go alone, just me and the girl, but sense prevails and we convoy-up for the more difficult trips.

Travel with like-minded never a problem normally, each gets on doing their own thing on arrival.

Work associate went from Durban through Mozambique up onto southern Lake Victoria, met up with lepidopterist community at the lake for a couple of days. Returned via Congo for his wife to hike in to see the gorilla families in the wild, too expensive for him and his son to join her. Their trip was over eight weeks with all three able to drive, arrived home without so much as a puncture in 2007.

That would have been an amazing trip and something I'd like to do!

Was their life dream and they made it... Yup big continent with plenty to see and do.