“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...