For the first time in three weeks I am alone, driving from Windhoek toward the Namib Desert beneath a ubiquitous blue sky, its presence above the savannah creating the illusion of a flat, wide Earth.

I was driving home to New Mexico after spending ten days in Nevada's Great Basin Desert.

The results indicated: (1) the driving mechanism of the formation of land desertification in the east part of Kubuqi desert was resulted by the conjunct effects of natural and human factors.