We usually avoid Playa in the summer because it can be oppressively hot and humid. But this summer, we found ourselves here for most of the summer. We hope we won’t be here in the summer going forward, so we thought we should do things that are only available in…
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Rehab in Playa and a Little Bit of Fun Too
In the article where we told you about my broken hip, we finished up in Playa del Carmen at two and a half weeks after surgery. The fact of the matter is, the next two months were pretty boring. But we did try to find some fun things to do,…
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Etosha, the Final Chapter of This Year’s African Adventure
Golden dusk whispers, Elephants drift through tall grass— Moonrise, hip undone.
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A Short Visit to the Namibian Sand Sea
The places we chose to visit on our self-drive in Namibia all had some kind of significance. We visited the Kulala Desert Lodge next because of the red dunes. Our son had seen them while he was doing a study abroad program in Botswana and told us we should definitely…
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Our First Taste of the Deserts of Namibia
After South Africa and Kruger, it was time for the self-drive part of this adventure. We flew from Kruger to Johannesburg and then on to Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.