All good things are wild and free – Henry David Thoreau With a lot of appreciation for the wildlife seen in Africa we decided to revisit a wonderful destination from our travels in 2002 – Tanzania. We hoped to see larger herds of animals, still sought the elusive leopard, and the Wildebeest Migration is in full swing. We flew into...
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. – Jane Goodall To round off our experiences of giving our time in Uganda we donated money to the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Trust in exchange for the opportunity to be Caregivers for a day. In 2002 we...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We slowed it down here in Rio and it has been great. It was a natural destination to chill since the beach dominates the pulse of the city. We love the greeting they use instead of “Have a good day”, it is “Have a good beach”. We made our reservations long ago and were advised that during the high...
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. – John O’Donohue Our adventure so far has largely unfolded along the banks of a river. On December 29th we landed in Montevideo on the coast of the massive Rio de la Plata, which Chad will argue is not a river, but rather a...