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Posts from 1+ Years of Travel
50,000 miles, 23 countries, 5 continents... and almost 2 years later. I've left the corporate world (and the US) to experience life.
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...