mountain – The Way I See It

joelwitwer — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 01:31:23 +0000

I climbed this little mountain in order to take full advantage of the sunsets while we still have them down here. I was not disappointed.

joelwitwer — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:49:29 +0000

Pioneers! O Pioneers
Come my tan faced children
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;
Have you your pistols? Have you your sharp edged axes? Pioneers! O Pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest depend. Pioneers! O Pioneers

– Walt Whitman

joelwitwer — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:06:40 +0000

The road between Aus and Sousesvlei in Namibia is a veritable fairytale of a drive. You start out in desert, drive through scraggy plains, through rolling hills, and in between rocky croppings before arriving to towering sand dunes. You are on dirt roads the entire time, but they are some of the smoothest dirt roads I have traveled on – and smoother than many of our tarred roads in Zambia. The experience makes up for any loss of time you may ‘suffer’.