I woke at 5:30 am – just in time to catch the first rays of a magnificent sunrise over the…
We traveled north to Shakawe, in the panhandle of the Okavango, near the Namibian border. Today is the beginning of…
Mosquito nets are good for more than catching fish and keeping the bugs out. They make excellent bridal veils and,…
In the US, I am an internet junkie. It took coming to Botswana to realize that. Here, I prepay every…
Three days after I opened my bank account, I got a phone call from Standard Chartered Bank. I had put…
At dusk, we saw a leopard! We paused our car to navigate a particularly deep ridge in the sand and…
When living in Maun, it is not essential to have a local bank account. At least in my case, my…
This week, I accompanied staff from the Okavango Research Institute on a water run to ORI’s field station on Chief’s…
When it rains in Africa, it usually pours in buckets with rolling thunder and lightning. Sometimes it rolls through fast.…
One of my many tasks shortly after arrival in Maun was to buy a car. This is tremendously daunting. First…