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...
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...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ― Anaïs Nin Okay, I think Lobos Marinos (as they call them here), or Marine Wolves is a much better name than Sea Lions. This was the kids first official dive as certified scuba divers. But getting there wasn’t a piece of cake. Having these animal encounters with the penguins...
I think the penguins were worth every second of the 20 hours in a bus it took to get here and the 10:30 p.m. dinner (which I didn’t enjoy as much as I could’ve). It was amazing looking behind you and seeing a mother feeding her baby then walking forward and almost step on a penguin crossing the...