Leaving the Sub Zero and Heading to the Desert!
I leave today for Namibia, one of the oldest deserts in the world and the second-least populated country on Earth, after Greenland.
It's going to prove a very hot one in the Southern Hemisphere summer ... but if I have learnt anything from all these expeditions, it is that the good moments of life are rarely easy.
If I am honest, I am quite apprehensive about these next two African shows (Zambia and Namibia), and I know how careful you have to be with crocs, snakes and wild beasts in those countries. (My two young boys seem much more relaxed about it than me!)
But we have a good team and I have operated in Zambia beforehand. I am sure once I am on the ground I will find that survival instinct comes to me again.
It is so often like this before I leave: I am nervous of the unknown and the risks, then once I land in country I am so absorbed with doing everything that the apprehension gets pushed aside.
Feeling nervous is normal though, I guess. What matters is that you still go, and give your everything, no matter how hard it is.
One of my favourite quotes I ever heard was from a soldier: "I look at it like this: I expect to work for 24 hours of every day, until my eyes bleed with fatigue. Anything less than this is then a bonus!"
Wish me luck.
