travel

About this memoir This memoir is not intended to be a day-by-day account of our journey or a travel guide to Botswana and Namibia’s Zambezi Region. Nor is it an attempt to record every place we visited or every wildlife sighting we enjoyed. Instead, I wanted to capture not only where we went, but what

“Remain dead still.” JJ’s voice over the two-way radio was calm, but the undertone carried urgency. “Engines off. No movement. No sound. Only silence.” A moment later, the dry riverbed in which we stopped seemed to come alive. From the bush emerged a lone desert elephant bull – deliberate, immense, and impossibly close. The majestic