Author Archives: I’m sick. This hot, arid weather is kicking my ass. Last Friday (6 whole days ago) I started to feel like I was fighting a cold. Ok, fine – except for the fact that I had planned, the next morning, on going to this new gym in Windhoek to take a few aerobics classes. Stubborn […]  After being in the Kalahari Desert for over two weeks, the landscape finally changed. It felt dramatic to my eyes, because I had been staring out at monotonously flat land, where one could see far into the horizon, for weeks. Now, suddenly, the flat was interrupted and little mounds began to dot the horizon. At […]  Day 16 in Botswana with Bruno. We started in Francistown, crossed through the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, spent a few days in Gweta on route to Maun, where we parked ourselves for 6 days before heading on the road again toward the border of Namibia, via D’kar, Ghanzi, and Tshootsha. Sound like a lot? When […]  Enter Scene: A lone figure enters stage left, wearing a brown cowboy hat and muted, dusty clothing. Using his tool of choice – an old, dry stick – he beckons his cattle forward. The bells, attached to his keep, chime as the cattle move slowly forward, plucking up the few dry tufts of yellow grasses […]  Before departing the North American continent for the umpteeth time, I had the fortune of meeting my parents’ new neighbors, Carla and Hubert. They were telling me about how easy it had been to move into the neighborhood because of the kindness and openness of my parents. Carla told me the story of the day […] |
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