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Travel meme time! The latest is “7 Super Shots” started by HostelBookers and graciously passed along to me by HapiDayz travel blog. This one’s pretty simple: select 7 photos that fit into 7 categories and then nominate 5 others to share the same. Here are mine. Amateur A PHOTO THAT… Takes my breath away:I think [...]

We decided to cap off our trip to East Africa with one final day tour with Urban Adventures, what we thought was a walking safari through Hell’s Gate National Park. We had read that this was what the park was known for and between our desire to spend our last day with animals, and the [...]

Minor bumps aside, we left our weeklong safari tour in great spirits, having seen more than we had ever hoped, and met and spent time with people who we liked enough to hug good-bye when we went on our own way. On the last day, while most of the group continued back to Nairobi where [...]

I’m sort of assembling this post with the assumption that no one will look at it. Afterall, who cares about the trees in the Serengeti when there are elephant parades and lions mating around every corner? Well I do, dammit. If these trees were anywhere else, they’d be photographed and fawned over. But living in [...]

Although my journey through East Africa generated some deep thoughts and revelations, we originally decided to go for a far simpler purpose: we wanted to see animals. J and I are both serious animal lovers and nothing thrills us more than visiting a place and stumbling upon creatures in the wild or species we’ve never [...]