South Africa Silver Linings in times of Covid19
In an effort to bring you some new voices on Ottsworld, here is a guest post from Shelley and Lars. I ‘met’ Shelley when she…
In an effort to bring you some new voices on Ottsworld, here is a guest post from Shelley and Lars. I ‘met’ Shelley when she…
We had been driving for about four hours when we turned off the bumpy road onto the flat expanse of the Sahara Desert in Morocco….
I picked up the thin, nearly translucent shaving from the ground. It looked like a shaving of a fingernail. I examined it closely. I slowly…
I was on my knees, trying to get as low as I could possibly go and still remain safely in the vehicle. Every time one…
The safari jeep pulled away, and we were all just standing there. On the ground.With no transportation. My heart raced. I quickly realized I had…
“This is Zululand, not Disneyland. You can’t book animals to show up,” our safari guide Christian reminded us. Granted, he had sort of taunted us…
The sun dips down in the sky disappearing into the Atlantic Ocean. I seldom have watched a sunset so intently; waiting, waiting, waiting for that…
“No need to cry – the mountain isn’t going anywhere – you can try again.” That statement made by my Kilimanjaro guide, Douglas, has stuck…
I’ve been talking and writing a lot about career breaks lately, which has coincidently got me thinking about the original career break I took in…
Just like churches dominate the European landscape, Mosques take the honor in the Middle East. During my travels in the Middle East this winter I…