Travel

Today we drove north along Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, a stretch of shoreline famous for fog, shipwrecks, and one of the most overwhelming wildlife spectacles on earth. The drive itself is long and starkly beautiful — the Atlantic on one side, the desert …

Photos and Slideshow to come! Gotta get the words down first!! We said goodbye to Cape Town and flew north to Namibia, landing in Walvis Bay — a place where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Namib Desert in a way that feels almost improbable. From the air, …

Photo and “Slideshow” to come! Just gotta get the writing done! After several days of early departures and tightly scheduled adventures — Table Mountain, penguins, Cape storms, and our rather thoughtful “difficult discussion” about poaching — the final …

We began the day at Table Mountain, because when in Cape Town, you go up the mountain. The cable car (technically a rotating gondola) carried us upward into blue sky… and then later, back down into pure whiteness as the fog rolled in like a curtain bei …

The last you saw your fearless traveler, we were being told “Good luck” by the Kruger gate while pinned between elephants. Since then: vineyards, revolutionaries, perfume chemistry, language monuments, prison guards, penguins-to-be, and one very long s …

We breakfasted watching a bloat of hippos lounging on the far bank of the Crocodile River, directly across from Buckler’s. Yes, a bloat. Massive gray bodies half in, half out of the water, occasionally yawning like they were late for something prehisto …

(a.k.a. Yes, I Actually Did That) Before we dive into South Africa, a small (but actually not small) preface. During COVID — when the rest of the planet was perfecting sourdough — I enrolled in the Certified Introductory level with the Court of Master …

Kruger is why I’m behind. Yesterday (Day 1 here), I was up until nearly 10 p.m. editing photos — and we had to be “at the gate to Kruger” at 5:00 this morning. Guides get priority entry into the park for the first half hour. Yesterday we did not. Today …

We didn’t have to get up too early — bags outside the door, breakfast, and off we went. The drive to the airport wasn’t long, though it was punctuated by an elephant calmly blocking the street. As one does. Lynn had taken my shaving kit into her checke …

Today was our Zambia day — passports in hand, dual-entry visas at the ready. No issues heading into Zambia (aside from the ever-present copper bracelet hustlers). Coming back into Zimbabwe was more dramatic: about half our crew had visa issues, while t …