“Greatest sunset ever,” Turek said when the light had finally died. The rain, which had been stalking us on the savanna, was now in full flow. It followed us back to the lodge, and by the time we got ...

Set on the banks of a river in a dense, tropical forest, Serra Cafema is an outlier among Namibia’s desert-focused safari lodges. There is no shortage of desert here either – you will spend plenty of ...

During the 45 years the Peace Corps has been in existence, the organization's mission -- for obvious reasons -- has attracted a few restless, socially conscious writers. Naturally, those writers have ...

The ancient trees of Deadvlei, in Namibia’s Sossusvlei clay pan. It rained on my first evening in Namibia, well before I was in a position to appreciate the auspicious beauty of such an event. My ...

It rained on my first evening in Namibia, well before I was in a position to appreciate the auspicious beauty of such an event. My husband, Ryan, and I were with the photographer Michael Turek at ...