Allow me to humiliate myself by stating the obvious:

Africa is big.

I’ve just looked our month-long route in Morocco on a map of Africa (top left blue line on the map above, for those of us that are geographically-challenged). After that I’ve sketched our our planned route for the next leg of our trip; the sub-Saharan adventure. I’m overwhelmed and would like to make a second dumb observation:

The world is really big.

(Thanks for indulging me.)