Tag Archives: Dispatches from the road – The morning I was set to cross the border, I was in high spirits. I would be leaving Namibia – the land of extreme temperatures, and the place where I was so sick for so many weeks – and heading into a new country, a fresh start. South Africa. Although I wasn’t going to be […]  Most of you who have been following my blog lately have probably noticed a theme here in Namibia – the difficulty of traveling in this country due to its impossible weather. Since leaving Luderitz, Bruno and I have scurried through the few hundred kilometers to the border with South Africa, in hopes of escaping the once-again […] It’s unlike me not to write a Christmas post, even if some of my Christmasses abroad have been less than wondrous. This year probably rates as the worst of the worst and is the reason for this belated holiday post. On Monday, December 17th, I rode Gaza for what would turn out to be the […]  My trip to Namibia and Botswana is over and, as I sit at home reminiscing over photos and re-reading blog entries, I realize that there is so much that didn’t make it onto the blog. Bruno is quite the photographer, and his amazing shots deserve to be showcased. So, I’ve decided to dedicate this almost-entirely-pictures […]  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 […] |
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