In the summer of 2008, my parents Hugh and Carolyn Ryan and my husband Travis and I traveled to Africa for a self-fly safari. We flew two Cessna 182's from Johannesburg, South Africa, across the Kalahari Desert and Okavanga Delta of Botswana, to Zambia. From there, we went south through the Limpopo Valley of Botswana and over the escarpment back into South Africa. After returning the planes, we met my brother and his girlfriend in Senegal and spent a week in Cape Verde. This is my record of our adventures.