You know how, at the end of every podcast video, we say “If you enjoyed watching this, the best thanks you can give us is to show it to someone else?”  Well, it’s true! We’re trying to grow our audience and we need your help!  But we want to offer you something in return, so we’re holding a week-long contest every time we post one of our podcast videos.  Over the next seven days, if you share a link to this Elephant-Back Safari post ( with your own network of friends and followers on Twitter or Facebook (just be sure to @rlomidgett on Twitter or @Arlo Midgett on Facebook so I can find it!), you’ll automatically be entered to win ANY ONE of the photos we have on our site!  [Click here for Contest Rules and details!] Oksana and I spent a week in Livingstone, Zambia, next to Victoria Falls.  We made time to visit both sides of the park – Zambia and Zimbabwe.  Part of the reason we spent so long in the area was that I was trying hard to justify one of the many excursions one can do in the area.  Although Zambia is cheap, the tourism around Victoria Falls isn’t.  Even though we were way over-budget, I so wanted to take a helicopter over the falls or bungee jump off the Victoria Falls Bridge!  I couldn’t see myself leaving this part of Africa without doing something unique.  Well, we got our wish!  On our day-trip to Zimbabwe, we hooked up with a tour agency called Adventure Zone ( for an Elephant-Back Safari! Compared to the previous safari video I edited, this one came together so much easier.  (Probably because it recaps a 3-hour tour, rather than a 4-day/3-night one!)  We recorded our voiceovers in the courtyard of our hotel, which was a bit frustrating – if you hear someone sweeping the patio by the pool, try to imagine it’s an elephant swishing his tail as he walks through the bush… I also want to give a shout out to Br...