Just 3 micro-posts, something ahead of real reports soon.
First,
the most amazing road, between Mopipi and the A3 to Maum. To the left is the great Kalahari plain north of the pans. To the right the beginning of the greenery south of the delta. Storm ahead, like everyday somewhere over or around the Okavango in rainy season
In rainy season (now) the clouds appear out of nowhere fast. The dark cloud bottoms get close to the ground and above the sky roils. The storm lasts between 30 minutes and 4 or 5 hours. When the localized cloud above you bursts it is the heaviest I’ve ever seen, worse than the worst of Indonesian monsoon.
Here I’m running into whiteout. You can see how quickly heavy turns into very heavy and you have to stop the car
Edit: Car? Yes, not bike. It’s a one day 950K drive to Gaborone, where I’m working on something, which is twice too far for me, on my windshieldless enduro.
Second,
far to the north, on the Boro river channel, the largest of the delta tributaries. You can follow it to Angola for a few months a year. Right now the rainy season hasn’t reached the point the delta floods. Currently there is much more land than water, and a couple of months from now there’ll be much more water than land. Here we are, a few hours north of the village of Boro. Three fish eagles ahead
The village of Boro is classic yet vanishing Botswana. If you want to see what that looks like, click below
Thirdly,
Gaborone, the capital. Below (taken out a taxi window) is the tallest building in the country. Plus the picture tells you a lot more of what you need to know
Story to follow.
Comments
I have no idea who you are, or how I even found this blog, but I’ve been reading thru your posts over an hour now. I’m thoroughly enjoying the pictures and videos, despite not understanding some of the posts. Are you a cyclist? A motorbiker?
Anyway, my favourite thing to do when I could, was to go hiking and camping. I always wanted to travel more than anything but was very poor and always had at least 2 jobs. I was hit by a drunk driver 13 years ago, in my 20’s, and am now homebound. I was homelss off and on many times as I was too disabled to work, but luckily I have a roof over my head now.
I hate that I’m not out there living my life, creating art and doing things, and sometimes looking at other people’s lives makes me severely depressed. But somehow, the way you present things, doesn’t make me feel awful that I’m not out having adventures.
So, for what its worth, I’m enjoying your blog.
Hi,
Thanks for reading my blog.
I suffered with depression for 25 years. If you want to talk more about it, contact me off the contact page in the menu bar.
Regards,
J