Contents

Prologue

1 Passengers only beyond this point

2 Hell for leather

3 Training wheels off

4 The Baz Bus

5 Tension in the Transkei

6 The Mountain Kingdom

7 Thinking outside the square

8 I don’t want to be normal

9 Lion country

10 Sand safari

11 Namboobia

12 Easy eights

13 Marshmallows and googols

14 Zim

15 The dementor at the falls

16 Jungle Junction

17 Two wazungu

18 Mr Friendly

19 Mushroom-Farm style

20 The lake of stars

21 Ten out of ten

22 The Shire

23 Zomba

24 Bordering on the ridiculous

25 Expect the unexpected

26 Swings and roundabouts

27 Fever!

28 The greatest waterfall of the Nile

29 Let’s get lost

30 Playing Quidditch

31 Prayers and chickens

32 The Africa of dreams

33 When September ends

34 Rolling with the punches

35 Life lessons

36 Sam in charge

37 Zanzibar

38 A boy to a person

39 Life skills

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Resources