Alice in Wanderland

The Roz Savage Project Podcast

Since the last podcast, the world has imploded with coronavirus. Alice and Vic talk about how it is affecting them in Morocco and Norway respectively. Vic faces some real challenges: his wife is almost certain to be infected as she is an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. Alice decided to go back into Morocco from London as that is where her home is and is now dealing with the consequences of that decis...

Alice is in London this week, so she tells us about her cultural shock at being among so many people after weeks of the great nothing. We also talk about her amazing experience with some school children in Liverpool, giving feedback about her expedition gear, hiking in the Atlas Mountains, second breakfast, and, of course, coronavirus complications.

Adventures in Morocco

Now south of Bir Gandouz, Alice, the camels, and her team are nearing the end of their trek through the Western Sahara.  In this episode, Alice tells us about land mines, Azwo the dog, a boat graveyard, and, of course, being very nearly at the end!!

Now, south of Dahkla , Alice has had a difficult two weeks since last we spoke.  Wind, heat, quicksand, and the great nothingness have taken their toll on the expedition.  However, Alice and her team have made good progress and are continuing to push on toward their goal.

This week we get to hear about Camel Love, making sand bread, a lonely Mauritanian shepherd, Camel Fighting, sulfurous hot springs, and a wounded donkey. 

After 39 days of sand, wind, and sun, Alice sees green grass! We also hear about Saharan hospitality, Christmas in the desert, and camel sweat.

After a tough start, we’ve got into our stride on the Sahara Expedition. There HAS been strife though. Our male camels are all hot under the saddle because it is mating season and we have been passing through Sagiyya Al Hamra which has a nomad population with lots of female camels. Check out my Instagram @aliceoutthere1 for pictures.  I got to take a break from the camels’ (lack of) sex problems t...

Thanks for listening to my podcast. Please do subscribe. I try to take you along on my adventures so you can experience them too.  At the moment I’m on an epic trek - 2000km across the Sahara - #saharaexpedition - beginning in Oued Chbika, and ending at the southernmost tip and border with Mauritania. The journey is expected to take three months, setting out on November 26th,  I am travelling with...

From Alice's website:  "I was born in 1963 in the Edinburgh Infirmary. Six weeks later, just after my mum had successfully taken her law exams, my parents Jim and Fredi  boarded a ship and sailed to Africa. For the first 8 years of my life, I got to run free in the African Bush, roaming around the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda, hunting tadpoles and running away from snakes. At t...

Imlil, Morocco:   https://goo.gl/maps/gBoE2jhH6WtqPHHF7   Karma is NOT a Bitch "My douar (compound) is made up of three family houses owned by two brothers and an uncle and their wives and children, my little house, and then a downstairs for the cow and the chickens. In the middle, there is a communal yard where the kids play. It is enclosed with a big double door at the end which is locked at nig...

In March 2019, Explorer Alice Hunter Morrison became the first woman to walk the length of the River Draa in Morocco. She discovered a lost city, found the tombs of the giants and was confronted with the dire effects of climate change on once viable land. Now, she is taking on the Sahara, the biggest hot desert in the world. The expedition will cover 2000km, beginning in Oued Chbika on the Atlanti...