The African way?

[Mauser78]

Have anyone started doing things the African way after a trip?
Started wearing different clothes?
Cooking in a different manner?
Change your hunting style?
Started making Biltong or Droewors or boerewors?
Adopted some recipes that you cook often?

Any thing that you did in Africa that became part of your normal life.

 

[Mauser78]

Having your drinks in a different way? I know when I stayed in the states the mixed drinks was way different, Twix became my favourate chocolate, and after 2 years in the UK i only smoked Golden Virginia rolies.

 

[mark-hunter]

Rearranging living room from euro to African style. Will be completed when zebra rug arrives.

In the meantime:
African style glasses, african colors - table clothing etc are in position. massive dark wood table + chairs. Kudu shoulder mount is in a corner..

Spears, arrows on the wall, I have ebony masks, other wooden ebony carvings from previous non-hunting trips, etc... Transformation is in progress...
Books on the shelves: Capstick, Boddington, Roosevelt, Ruark, Hamingway... others...

And when zebra arrives, couch or/and sofa, on suggestion of my wife could be chesterfield style...

 

[gesch]

I read this site daily! I appreciate apart of the world I knew little about. I wear my Africa hunting clothes. I have started trying to figure out how to justify Courtney hunting boots. I seem to want a 375 H & H caliber rifle. I talk to my new friends on the phone periodically(Duvenhage’s from Uitspan Hunting in Namibia—great people). I practice my rifle shooting more often. It goes on an on....!

 

[everett]

I don’t go hunting anywhere for anything without shooting sticks.

 

[johnnyblues]

I definitely have started collecting African accessories for the house.

 

[Red Leg]

Other than the trophy room, not really. Our home has a touch of all the many places we have visited or lived.

 

[Mauser78]

I don’t go hunting anywhere for anything without shooting sticks.

Also something I never used until reading about it and talking to some friends that work as PH’s. Now its always with me, none of my hunting budys use sticks, this year me and one budy used myne for kudu’s 200 plus yards for both of us in Eastern Cape

 

[CAustin]

Yes I have someone wash my clothes, make my bed, cook my food and build nice fires.....now if I can just get the wife to start skinning game I will have started the true African life!

 

[Wheels]

I keep trying to make our toilet drain counter clockwise.

 

[Velo Dog]

I bought a .500 Jeffery.

 

[ArmyAV8tor]

Ditto Redleg! Our house has tidbits and trinkets from all our duty stations but I have to say the Africa stuff dominates the living room and foyer and a chamois from Germany matches up nicely next to my steenbok..

 

[Nyati]

With 40+ African trophies, masks, spears and other souvenirs, yes, my house does look African.

 

[sierraone]

With 40+ African trophies, masks, spears and other souvenirs, yes, my house does look African.

I have only been in one home that had 40 or more mounts. A small town outside of Houston......Imagine that!!! Texas of all places!

 

[Nyati]

I have only been in one home that had 40 or more mounts. A small town outside of Houston......Imagine that!!! Texas of all places!

To those you have to add 10 more from European animals

All of them euro-mounts of course, otherwise I would have no space for them , and it´s not over, I´m going back in 38 days

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

I bulit 404Jeffery and use Courteney boots.

 

[JimP]

In all the places that I stayed while I was in South Africa the only place that I saw what most of you are describing as "African" was when I was at the lodge while I was hunting. Other than that all the B&B's that we stayed at could of been right here in the US. There were no real decorations that you would call African.

That is unless you count the 3 nights that I spent in the country of Lesotho and even then the lodge was decorated in a party or fun manor but the village that we spent the night in was defiantly what you would call Africa.

Here are a few pictures of it:

 

[Ryan]

Since Africa is kind of a large and diverse place I'll say I have picked up a few things from southern Africa. Since I make my own sausages I have in fact made boerwors, droewors and biltong aside from my usual American versions of sauage, jerky and 'Slim Jims'. It kind of depends on my whim which recipe gets made. Various building designs I've seen there has had an influence on me as I design a place here in Alaska. I wish I could use the open ceiling thatched roof here, but it isn't happening. Definitely prefer natural uneven materials more now over flat white ceilings and will incorporate that in some way. I already own a Toyota, so that won't change. Won't be calling it a bakkie, 'pick up' is too beat into my brain. My Arizona upbringing already had me in shorts, but I wear gators on my hunting boots when I visit family and hunt down there now. Love how they keep seeds out. Africa hunting literature had me using shooting sticks before I went, but I have passed that along to others too.

I have a friend working in Senegal and intend on visiting for a week plus this next year fishing and touring. We'll see how that influences me.

 

[sestoppelman]

Nope.

 

[Newboomer]

10 shoulder mounts, 1 full size mount in my trophy room. 2 pedestal mounts in my living room, skins as tablecloths and sofa covers. Copies of Safari and Sports Afield on my end table and several African hunting and Boddington books. Bought a 375 HH and have a 404 Jeffery on order. Practice and hunt with sticks all the time now. Sometimes wear camo and a Two Waters Safaris or an FTW Ranch ball cap.