Within the next few weeks, my companion and I will embark on a journey that has been a decade-long dream of mine. It is to be a foot journey and will ultimately see us completely circumambulate Zimbabwe, beginning and ending at Victoria Falls and following the borderline the entire distance. When the Borderline concept was first put to me, I was a mere twenty-four years old. I am now thirty-seven and finally ready to put it into practice. At first it was an interesting idea that was worthy of conversation. Then it became a possibility worth looking into.

Hunting your Favorite. Given an open invitation to go hunting which animal would be your first choice? One of the Big Five? A particularly rare or difficult to hunt or a species that you have never hunted before? Or would you, like me, rather hunt one of your old favourites? An animal that is close to your heart because of certain characteristics or because you know the animal’s habitat and habits and because that particular species stirs your emotions in one way or another whenever you see it in the veld.