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Life is short-so why not follow your dreams?
After years of building separate careers, Catherine and I were drifting apart. The solution? A bold leap into the unknown: a journey deep into the wild heart of Africa.
What followed was a journey of reconnection, challenge, and discovery. From unexpected detours to transformative encounters, this is the true story of how an African adventure reshaped our relationship, our perspectives, and ultimately, our lives. This is a tale of one couple's long drive home.
This is more than a travel memoir, taking the slow, less driven road, it's an invitation to embark on your own adventure and emulate our journey. We capture the true voice of Africa, those making the continent work. Unexpectantly, we also bumped into the 'great and the good'; Hollywood actors and environmentalist, the odd mercenary and past warriors.
What does one do after a military career? The book reflects on how the military mind adapts to the Boardroom.
After 35,248 km on a single slow puncture (two Land Rovers, a few clutches and a bent steering rod), they arrive home in England, wiser, closer and more assured. They will not be the last, nor were they the first African adventurers, for very single journey is unique. Go find yourselves!
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Adrian and Catherine are a couple of English Home County grammar school kids who met at Sheffield University in the mid 1980s and married in 1997. We have lived in our Hampshire village for the last 30 odd years, walking our dogs, although we have lived and worked abroad during this time. Catherine remains the 'brains trust' having studied medicine. She attained her place with Arts A-Levels, which she converted to three sciences in her first university year. We have been together since university, despite our divergent vocations. Post-university, Catherine went into pharmaceuticals, working and managing drug trials to test the efficacy of nascent compounds. After University, Adrian spent 17 years in the Forces, an Officer in the Parachute Regiment, leaving with an MBA and MoD experience. On leaving, there was little commercial little need for parachute assaults upon the City, yet Adrian became adept in making sense of, and creating order from disorder, to form and storm divergent teams. As a global interim executive, Adrian focused on transformation, change and turnaround in big corporates/programmes, start-ups and on sustainable growth; being parachuted into companies (no pun intended) with a mandate to transform. It takes him back to where he began!
