Excerpt from "DESERTS"

"The first night i spent in a tent in the
Kalahari was also one of the coldest in my life. Even though I knew that the temperature differences between night and day could be significant in a desert, nothing had prepared me for the near- freezing experience that followed the blistering heat of the day before. Putting on a second pair of pants and another layer of T-shirts, I cursed myself for not being better prepared. I learned my lesson that night, and on my next trip to the desert I stocked up on warm clothes. Unfortunately, my luggage had been lost on its way from Johannesburg to Windhoek, and I only saw it again after spending three weeks shivering each night in a borrowed, thin sleeping bag, with just a single shirt on my back."

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