Watching the Sun Bake

I finished reading Julian Smith’s excellent book Crossing the Heart of Africa which attempting to fall asleep in a guesthouse near W...

The moments before dawn surpass the sunrise as the best time to be in the desert.  Last night’s battles for survival have ended and to...

The owner of the guesthouse where I stayed in Upington had a visceral response when I told her that I was traveling to Pofadder.  “Y...