3/3/16 After spending a long night at the Nairobi airport we arrived in Uganda. We tried to get into many lounges to sleep in but every one we tried they did not accept us. Instead of getting to stay in a nice luxury lounge we slept in the kids area, which luckily for my family I qualified for the...
You get what you pay for. We just concluded an 8 day “Overland Tour”. These are typically one way budget tours that travel long distances and end in a different city than they start while incorporating activities and sites along the way. Botswana has adopted a policy of low volume, high quality luxury tours and has some of the...
A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for. – Gael Attal The second half of our adventure in Namibia was in the desert. We visited Swakopmund, which is on the coast and has a lot of activities to do. Note that I didn’t call it a beach town. It has a nice...
Africa is full of pleasant surprises. So many of my wishes came true!!! My favorite animal is a cheetah and I’ve never seen one before now. I’ve seen so many big cats, which I love. And tons of my favorite bird, vultures (I do have my reasons). I’m not used to people speaking English to me, which is a...
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” –Mahatma Gandhi This chapter of the trip felt a bit like starting a new adventure. Before this, nearly everything was planned and it felt more like a vacation. Starting now, we are planning as we...
2/8/16 Today is basically a flying day but right now we are in a layover, and we are in Johannesburg S. Africa. In 1948 there was apartheid in S. Africa much like the segregation in the U.S, just 1000 times worse. We got to see the apartheid museum and we got to see Nelson Mandela’s house, he was a freedom...
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ― Margaret Mead With our 11 hr layover in Johannesburg we couldn’t bear to sit around the airport so we booked a tour. These few hours are our only time in the country of South Africa...
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…it’s learning to dance in the rain – Vivian Greene If the reality of the highly anticipated spectacle of watching the Carnaval festivities starting around midnight and carrying on through the night wasn’t enough, the skies were also in full downpour when we left to go to the show. We were...
Rio was a pretty amazing place to be. It has sooo many landmarks and it is a big city, but it doesn’t feel too crowded. I even went out IN the waves! I never do that! I also loved seeing the other half of Rio, the favelas. Everyone thinks that you’ll get robbed or shot in the favelas, they were wrong. And...
The newspaper ran an article at the beginning of our trip that the 62 richest people in the world now have the same assets as the poorest HALF of the world. This was one of the goals of our trip, I think I periodically need a reality check of what life really looks like for the majority of people...