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Airstream Inc. has been building the world's finest travel trailers and motorhomes since 1931. The Airstream factory and business offices, which are located in Jackson Center, Ohio, are the home of a one-of-a-kind repository of video, film, photography, and artifacts pertaining to the past, present, and future of this American icon of product quality and customer service. Airstream, Inc. is an Airstreams Across Africa video project sponsor. In this role, the Airstream Department of Marketing has agreed via signed MOU to permit Moriarty Media to use the historic 1959 Cape Town to Cairo Africa Caravan story featuring Wally Byam, creator of the Airstream travel trailer, founder of Airstream, Inc., and 1959 Africa Caravan leader, and has provided Moriarty Media with historical footage and photographs for use in this video project.   

A group of staff and students from Algonquin College in Ontario, Canada, have just completed a 20-week trip over approximately the same route that our caravan proposes to cover. From the photos on their website, it looks like they used Chevy crewcab, shortbed pickup trucks. However, they did not pull trailers; they apparently tent-camped and occasionally stayed in hotels. The trip made by this group this year simply highlights that (1) it CAN be done and (2) it can be done SAFELY.

GENI: Geography Educators' Network Indiana - housed on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis, GENI is our link to National Geographic Education Foundation and serves as our geography education consultant for development of online educational components and follow-up educational materials centered around the event.

Green Way Supply provides smart, earth friendly, energy efficient and healthy alternatives to conventional building materials. Our objective is to help customers increase their comfort levels, improve indoor air quality, minimize their environmental impact and energy use, save money and sustain our planet.

Green Way Supply is a retailer and wholesaler of energy intelligent, environmentally sensitive and healthy building materials serving homeowners and the building and design community.

Visit here to access International Monetary Fund reports and publications. This is an excellent source of information about the 185 member countries of the IMF. This site also contains current and historical IMF press releases and information regarding world economic outlook. 

Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Find out what's REALLY happening in our world community.

The Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas at Austin houses a vast map collection that they make available online. This link is to the Africa Map section of their online map collection. Most of the maps were produced by the CIA.

Pete Turner is the photographer and cinematographer who documented the original 1959 journey.

Shonto is a Taxas ranch that offers hunts for whitetail deer and exotics, trout and bass fishing and camera safaris.

Tour d'Afrique is an 11000km (7000 miles) race from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa.

The Ubuntu Institute is an international non-profit, development organization focused on achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in Africa.

Visit the U.S. Department of State website's Background Notes, which include "facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State website you are now using."

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Travel Warnings are issued and listed here when the State Department recommends that Americans avoid a certain country. In addition to this list, the State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with information on such matters as the health conditions, crime, unusual currency or entry requirements, any areas of instability, and the location of the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate in the subject country.

The Vintage Airstream Club is the most comprehensive vintage Airstream site on the web.

Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that developed out of the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid-1990s, new media. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film, visual anthropology also encompasses the anthropological study of representation, including areas such as performance, museums, art, and the production and reception of mass media.

Wally Byam Caravan Club, International website.

WildNet Africa is a complex of websites consisting of over 10,000 pages that contain detailed description of Africa and African destinations (wildlife, travel, etc.)