Botswana solo travel: life lessons from a wild journey

Part of the beauty of solo travel is the spontaneity that comes with the absence of meaningful guardrails. At its best, the abandonment of inhibitions means true escapism; money becomes monopoly money, strangers become friends, the next stop is wherever you want it to be. Even at its worst – when logic gives way to travel-induced insanity – you pick up life lessons and stories worth telling (even if sheepishly), as I was reminded on a recent trip to Botswana.

Botswana is a vast, dry, and startlingly beautiful…