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Don Pinnock
My life has been somewhat colourful over the years. I've been an electronic engineer, a professional yachtsman, a cable-car operator on the Rock of Gibraltar and more.
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Rob House
Graphic design and a love of travel and photography have shaped my career, one spent mostly in the creative patch of the publishing arena. Moving to South Africa in 1994 was a revelation, as was four years spent as Getaway's Art Director which further fuelled my travel desire. Exploring Africa by motorbike is my continued joy.
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Leigh Stefanski
When I was growing up, I was the biggest coward you could have ever met. Scared of everything and willing to eat nothing but fish fingers and cucumber, if anyone had told my folks I'd find a career as a food and web editor, they would have near-died laughing.
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Tony Park
I discovered Africa late in life - when my wife, Nicola, and I first visited from our native Australia. We were hooked immediately. I don't think you have to be born in a place to love it. When I'm not working as a freelance journalist, I'm writing novels set in Africa.
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Daniela Bonora
I'm a recent Master's graduate from UCT, currently interning at Getaway.co.za. I've spent many years writing lengthy academic papers and I now get to write about two of my most favourite things: travel and food!
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The Vagabond Adventures
The Vagabond Adventures team is made up of Lucie (the Scottish lass), Lachlan (the Aussie bloke) and Bow Wow (the African dog). Together they will set off on an epic African overland adventure by 4x4 acting as ambassadors for the charity called Back to Africa, which relocates rare and endangered African species from zoological institutions worldwide back to Africa.
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Sharon Pincott - Getaway's Elephant Ambassador
Take a country-born Aussie, who stumbled into a high-flying city life. Strip her of her designer suits and high heels and throw her into the wilds of Zimbabwe at the height of its political unrest, where she's now lived in a tiny thatched rondavel for almost a decade. Is she crazy? Nah, just in love with elephants.
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Etienne Oosthuizen
Through fly-fishing and photography I have experienced the secret wonders that this great continent has to offer. With my wife, Leana, we manage a bush camp in southern Zambia, next to the biggest river this side of the equator. My blogs tells the stories of the experiences we face in living and working in this beautiful part of the world.
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Walking the line
A self-confessed gear fanatic and madman, Ray escaped the technology game in 2006 to take on his goal in life: to circumnavigate the world. Not by plane, yacht or 4x4 mind you... that's too easy! Departing in May 2011, he's doing it using only his own power! We've got him in the interim to test (and destroy) gear for us, but you can also follow him as puts his body through the ultimate challenges and sees the world from a slightly different perspective.
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Joe Starke - The travelling doctor
Joe Starke is a doctor from Cape Town who has lived and worked in some of the most isolated places on earth, including a 13-month expedition in Antarctica and a recent mission in a remote region of Pakistan with the humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders.
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Scott Ramsay
Somehow I can't stop dreaming about the wild places of Africa. I am happiest when standing on top of a Land Rover, photographing desert, bushveld or beach. I used to work fulltime for Getaway as a photojournalist, but found that even two weeks in the office is enough time for dust to gather on my camera kit. So now I look for any excuse as a freelancer to travel continuously to the remote areas of the continent.
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OverlandintheSun
Ryan Sanderson-Smith, Gwyn Roberts and Shaun Lane are travelling from London to Cape Town down the east coast of Africa in a 1989 Toyota LandCruiser partially powered by solar technology.
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Circling the South: Cape Town to Cape Town 2010
Three adventurers will cycle Southern Africa in 2010. The journey, starting on the 28th of February, will take them from Cape Town to Cape Town via Malawi. They aim to complete their 9000+ kilometre journey in five to six months.
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Holly Meadows
Travel is what took me from drizzly London to the souks of Marrakech, the pyramids of Cairo, and the mountains of Cape Town. After interning at Getaway, I now work as a freelance travel writer and spend as much time possible footloosing around this awesome country.
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Atlantic Rising
Lynn Morris, Tim Bromfield and Will Lorimer are on a 32 000 kilometre expedition around the Atlantic. Their journey is an exploration of what could be lost to climate change and an investigation into how communities are already coping with the effects of climate change.
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