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That’s Rebecca and me last Saturday in the Namib Naukluft National Park between Swakomund and Solitaire, Namibia. It’s day ten of a two-week exploration of this beautiful southwest African country. 

We’re mid-seventies and reasonably well-traveled for our generation of Americans. For both of us, this was our first exposure to Sub-Saharan Africa. It was an experience of a lifetime that we’re just starting to absorb, that I will share with Medium readers in Namibian darkling beetle-sized chunks over the next few weeks.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we returned to the States, in two elephant-sized steps.

5,037 miles from Windhoek, Namibia, to Frankfurt, Germany, and 4,579 miles to St. Louis.

Twenty hours in the atmosphere and twelve in airport waiting areas. It only seemed like a black rhino’s 15-month gestation period.

We returned home wrinkled and enlivened.