“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...

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. ...

I just got back from an 8-day DIY tour around Namibia with a friend of mine, complete with safaris and rhino tracking, desert exploring, hiking, fishing, and camping out under...

A Desert Land We flew over a stark, pancake-flat landscape that turned yellow and then light red.  Not a building or flicker of life was in sight below us.  A...