Hello everyone...I'm Derrick, a.k.a Bivy.
I have been following this site for a little over a year following my booking of a May 2015 hunt in Namibia. AfricaHunting.com has been a tremendous resource for budgeting, packing lists, travel tips, etc. I'm grateful for all the information I received so far, and I like forward to contributing with my own hunting report following my return next month.
Visiting the African continent and immersing myself in it's widlife has been a dream of mine for as long as I can recollect; probably around 5-6 years old. However, it wasn't until discovering Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa in my middle school library that I recognized safari as an option. My thrist for African safari literature was insatiable throughout the remainder of my middle and high school years. I wore the covers off Ruark's Horn of the Hunter, Boddington's Mt. Kenya to the Cape, and a plethora of other Safari Press publishings. Additionally, some great members of the local chapter of SCI would supply me, a broke kid, with back issues of SAFARI magazine when I attended the Cleveland Sportsmen Show.
My desire to hunt Africa has not waned, and last year, as I approached 30, I realized that making the dream a reality would be the greatest self-provided birthday present I could give myself. Soooooo...here I am completing last minute details associated with my first African hunt that I will depart on in exactly two weeks. The natural resource field does not pay well, so I have worked an additionally 40-hours a week (nights and weekends) at a fast food chain to save the funds for this adventure (not joking in the slightest). My point to all is...don't wait! Turn your dreams into reality before it is too late; we never know what life has in store for us, or when we are scheduled to check-out.
