I Thought the Pandemic Was Over. Until I Saw What Botswana Was Facing.

Covid testing center in Kasane, Botswana

The trip was supposed to be in June 2020. We had planned it for two years, a long-awaited return to the country my family loved. Everything was booked — flights, hotels, camping arrangements. But as the months ticked by from March to April to May, the idea of a big international trip in 2020 went from iffy to absurd to impossible.