He didn’t believe in love. She believed love came with an expiration date. They met in Munich in 1986 and agreed: no commitment.

Together, they set off from Cairo to Cape Town on twenty dollars a day for a journey that challenged everything they thought they knew about the world—and about themselves.

Some agreements weren’t meant to survive Africa.

Swimming in Air is a travel adventure and love story that, at heart, is about learning to see what was hidden in plain sight all along.