Namibia - Landscapes, Wildlife and Sunsets (May 9-22)
We began choosing countries for our trip on Christmas Eve 2014 after the kids unwrapped an early Christmas present. What they found was a stack of travel books, a laminated wall map of the world, and small coloured stickers (Lucas - blue, Maya - red, Kim - yellow and me - green). Over the next two weeks we spent some time leafing through the books and placing stickers onto countries each of us was inspired to visit (our personal bucket-lists). Our short list was pared down over the next month with a few of each of our ‘bucket-list’ countries/regions falling off the list for any number of reasons. Over the coming months as Kim and I worked out logistics, we finalized the list and figured out roughly how much time we’d spend in each area. One of MY bucket list countries was Namibia. For years, images of the world’s tallest sand dunes, and skeletons of whales and rusted-out ship hulls laying scattered along the rugged and desolate coastline (aptly named the Skeleton Coast) had b