This is shaping up to be the travel day to end all travel days. The morning began with a few-hour drive from the Cheetah Conservation Fund to the airport in Windhoek. Thankfully only a small portion of the route qualified as what Abraham liked to call a “Namibian massage” — those corrugated dirt roads that […]
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Day 20: Skeleton Coast — 210,000 Seals, Sorghum Lunch, and the Long Road Back
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 on the other, and almost nothing in between. Our destination was Cape Cross, […]
Day 19: Namibia — Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and the Dunes of Sandwich Harbour
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, the landscape looked like someone had taken a giant paintbrush and swept endless shades of tan and rust across […]
Next Trip: Africa! (Then Vancouver…then Japan…)
Coming up in February/March, I’m off with Overseas Adventure Travel again, this time to Africa. The overview is HERE, the day-to-day itinerary is HERE. I am doing the pre- and post-trips as well, then staying an extra couple of days in Namibia, at a Cheetah Conservation Organization that Herbert and I have supported for decades. […]