“We may see our lone bull hippo,” Clause was saying as we set out for a sunset cruise.   I was on my way back from Angola when I decided...

I finally made it into Angola last week.   It wasn’t the first time I had tried.  Back in March, I was denied at a simple border post near Epupa...

I woke up to the most unusual sound one morning.  It was tapping the mopane leaves and the calcium-rich rocks.  It was bouncing off the chalet roofs and flooding the...

A red hartebeest wandered onto the the airport highway as I drove back to Windhoek.  I slowed down the truck and smiled, imagining the cars behind me with passengers new...

“Connecticut,” I said under my breath, looking up from a bag of onions I had slung into my shopping cart in Opuwo, Namibia.  The 20-something represented fall in New England:...

“Sossusvlei is magnificent.  It’s spectacular, it’s home to the highest, most beautiful dunes in the world.  It is all these things, but really, Sossusvlei is indescribable.  You must see it...

I snapped out of my daydream to feel the car coming to a stop. I had been hearing Afrikaans for hours as we bumped along a corrugated dirt road, dust...

Balanced on the edge of the Etendeka Plateau, the Grootberg Lodge in Damaraland, Namibia may have the most dramatic view of any lodge in the country.  Overlooking an immense canyon...

Game Drives By the 3rd morning, we woke in the dark and climbed out of our tent to catch a 5:30am game drive being offered at Halali, our 3rd stop...

“If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa.”- John Hemingway The Start of a Roadtrip Our 8-day journey through the NW quadrant of Namibia started in Windhoek. ...