nod 'n' smile

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 [...]

Well, these won’t be the best photos you’ve ever seen. But as part of my Great Adventures That Weren’t week (posts here and here), they seemed appropriate to share. How’s that for an enticing lead-in for a post? Since I’m interesting in visiting most places in the world, it generally takes very little to convince [...]

I’ve been to my fair share of places around the world, but I’ve never been to a country as rife with life as Costa Rica. It seemed that no matter where we were in the country, every time we looked up, down, or sideways, there was another animal or insect wandering by. Some of the [...]