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After an epic adventure we are back in Johannesburg. You may be saying: “What? But last you wrote you were in Namibia and you still had Botswana, Zambia and Malawi to go!” True. It has been a long while since I’ve updated the blog. I’ve also noticed that some of the posts that I thought … Continue reading Back in Joburg
Namibia must have thought we were having just too good and epic of a time. It was ready for us. We thought we were ready for it. It had one more curve ball to throw at us. One that we never saw coming. My last post had us in Epupa Falls and the plan was … Continue reading Drive along the Cunene River
Things had gone too smoothly. Plans had been achieved a little too easily the previous two days. Our last day of our desert adventure and of course something had to go wrong. We found ourselves in the Hoarusib river where we camped last night searching for the track that was purported to be there. It … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 6
I’m sitting tonight in the Hoarusib river (well, the mostly dry bed of the river) after an amazing drive through long stretches of desert, deep sand, hard rock, thick mud, running water, Himba villages, deep canyons, steep graded loose stone inclines, steep dirt declines and pretty much everything else besides tar. It’s the beginning of … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 5
Somewhat astoundingly for everyone involved, things went relatively to plan on Day 4. We woke up at dawn and drove to Aub canyon over rocky dirt roads where we had a lovely breakfast overlooking a small canyon (more of a gorge or ravine but since they call it a canyon we’ll go with that). There … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 4
After driving past the lion tracks we decided to stay in the Huab river bed and continue exploring its sandy tracks. The scenery only got more and more phenomenal. Cutting through a dry and barren landscape of red clay, black rocks and deep sand is this oasis of green. Towering trees, lush reeds, chirping birds … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 3
Since we didn’t make it as far as we thought we would yesterday, we weren’t going to make it as far as we thought we would today either. Originally we had designs on making it all the way to Palmwag today. Not gonna happen. We woke up with the sun and went about our business … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 2
Our directions for today read like something out of a fantasy novel: (These are literally the directions) Drive north on the Great Salt Road passed St. Nowhere Take a right turn into the mouth of the Ugab river (if you get to the Skeleton Coast you’ve gone 7km too far) Drive 70km up the river … Continue reading Desert Adventure – Day 1
Have you even been driving along on holiday and saw something that piqued your interest and you couldn’t decide whether the detour was worth it to go check it out or not? Have you ever, say, come across a sign that says “Come take a picture with a giant ceramic aardvark” and thought to yourself … Continue reading Hendrickson Method for Travel Detour Decision Making (HMT2DM)
Since we had to go to Swakopmund we of course decided to take the long way through a bit of desert and into Walvis Bay. The desert was interesting but only a small foretaste of the desert to come. Like a desert appetizer. There’s not much to do or see in Walvis bay but we … Continue reading A quick layover in Swakopmund
Mid Career Conundrum 