Days 51 thru 56 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) Our travels have slowed considerably now that we are back in Gabarone as I’ve been preparing for the presentations on Friday and Saturday (which is, after all, the reason we came to Africa in the first place). I had prepared before making the trip over, but during

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Days 48 thru 50 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) We are nearing the end of our contract for the car rental, which means we need to get back to Gabarone. This means we will be driving back through some familiar villages, towns and cities. This gives me the chance to reflect on what I have learned

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Days 46 and 47 (Dan’s comments are italicized) “Come spend a night sleeping under the stars,” they said. Once again, I envisioned a cot/folding bed in a tent; once again, I was wrong! But let’s go back to the beginning… We bade farewell to the Okavango Delta and hopped into our trusty steed heading toward

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Days 40 thru 45 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) The Okavango Delta covers about 16,000 km², but very little of it has water right now. The reason is a dam that was built in Angola and a 3 year drought that has severely affected so much of Botswana and Namibia. So the journey from Maun to

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Days 35 thru 39 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) We have spent the last 5 days waiting around in Maun, thinking we had a private safari into Moremi Game Reserve organized. Sadly, we got news this evening, that the camp we were really excited about is fully booked. So we are trying to salvage something from

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Days 33 and 34 (Dan’s comments are italicized) This will be a very short post as we spent the last two days traveling. But first, I want to apologize to all of you who have let me know that you’re trying to post comments but can’t. We don’t know what’s happening and can’t look into

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Days 31 and 32 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) On the drive back to Windhoek, there were a couple of things that really hit home for me. Perhaps the most impactful was how important infrastructure is (I’ve never really given infrastructure much thought prior to this). For example, there’s a large port (that’s being expanded) at

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Days 29 and 30 (Dan’s comments are italicized) What a fantastic couple of days! Swakupmund was definitely the place to stay as it’s quaint and within easy reach of other places. It has some beautiful, old buildings…and everyone knows how I love old houses! We also learned something about a couple of buildings we shared

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Days 27 and 28 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) We traveled from mile high to the ocean sky through the desert (sigh!). The last 120 kilometers to the coast city of Swakupmund was really baron, and full of termite mounds and sand dunes. Driving into the city was a little shocking, on the outskirts was a village

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Days 25 and 26 (Dan’s comments are italicized) Leaving the game parks behind for a while, we feel like we’re moving away from a protected cocoon and going back into a bit of a wilderness. I know this sounds backward, but you don’t see poverty and homelessness in the game parks; the Africans there either

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