For more than 35 years I’ve spent my days on the road across Southern Africa and the wider world, watching landscapes quietly change people.

This year I’ve started turning those days into a 12‑volume series:

𝘼 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 – 3️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ 𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖
 

• One book per month.

• One chapter per day.

• Each chapter a single, living moment.

Some stories are from journeys with guests; others are from days alone on the road. All are real. No fiction. Just the world as I’ve seen it from the front seat, the stoep, the saddle, and the cockpit.

I’ve chosen to start with my favourite month – 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 (Volume 9) - now complete.

The other eleven months are still to come.
Over the months ahead I’ll be writing the rest of the year on paper—January storms, July frosts, March migrations, November heat—until all twelve books are done.
 

If you’ve travelled with me before, you may one day recognise your own morning, your river, your lion sighting in these pages. And if you haven’t yet, September is the first invitation—to imagine what your days here could look like, before we go and live them.