One of my fondest memories: In 2014, I spent the night by myself in this bed on the salt pans of the Kalahari under a star-filled sky, woke up to this.
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So I got into the bed, thinking I was about to have a transcendental experience. I would contemplate the vastness of a dark sky filled with histrionic stars.
Nope. I was out, asleep, in less than 30 secs.
I should have done that when I was in my 20s, not 50s!
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The salt pans. Nothing can survive there. No plants, no insects, nothing for miles.
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I desperately tried to stay away as long as I could. I’ve never seen a night sky like that before or since. One of my fondest memories.



