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Day 22: Sossusvlei: Big Daddy, Belly Bumps, and a Marble at Dune 40

The dunes of Sossusvlei are the kind of place that almost doesn’t look real. Photographs help, but when you actually arrive the scale of it all is hard to comprehend. These dunes sit inside Namib-Nauk …

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Day 21: The Longest “African Massage” — Swakopmund to Sossusvlei

Today we drove from Swakopmund to Sossusvlei, a journey of roughly six hours across the Namib Desert. Or as Abraham described it: “Today you will experience an African massage.” He was referring to th …

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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 star …

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Day 20: Skeleton Coast — 210,000 Seals, Sorghum Lunch, and the Long Road Back
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, shipwrec …

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Day 19: Namibia — Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and the Dunes of Sandwich Harbour
Day 19: Namibia — Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, and the Dunes of Sandwich Harbour

Photos and Slideshow to come! Gotta get the words down first!! We said goodbye to Cape Town and flew …

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Day 18: Blue Buses, Constantia Wine, and Saying Goodbye to the Cape
Day 18: Blue Buses, Constantia Wine, and Saying Goodbye to the Cape

Photo and “Slideshow” to come! Just gotta get the writing done! After several days of early departur …

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Day 17: Table Mountain, Penguins, Poaching, and the Complicated Beauty of the Cape
Day 17: Table Mountain, Penguins, Poaching, and the Complicated Beauty of the Cape

We began the day at Table Mountain, because when in Cape Town, you go up the mountain. The cable car …

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Days 14–16: Wine, Words, Freedom, & the Long Road to Cape Town
Days 14–16: Wine, Words, Freedom, & the Long Road to Cape Town

The last you saw your fearless traveler, we were being told “Good luck” by the Kruger gate while pin …

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