Monthly Archives: July 2008
Out of Africa
So we made it out of Africa in one piece. My biggest fear of getting horribly sick and having to seek African medical attention didn’t come true (I just hope that my other big fear of getting malaria symptoms once I’m back home and have no health insurance doesn’t come true either). There were no major episodes [...]
London
As soon as we left Nairobi and landed in London at 5:30 am we were officially homeless. We didn’t have hostels booked because of a lack of internet and unconfirmed flights, which was not a good situation to be in when Wimbledon is in full swing and Hyde Park is hosting Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party. Every single [...]
Sweden
After being in New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and England for a total of more than four months, which all drive on the left side of the road, looking right before crossing the street finally became instinctual. Enter Stockholm and right hand driving. When we first entered New Zealand it was simple, I look one way and immediately [...]
Sense of Adventure in Perfect Isolation – Ngorongoro Crater
After leaving THE Serengeti National Park, we backtracked to the Ngorongoro Crater. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an onomatopoeia for the sound a cow bell makes (or at least that is what we were told, because I can’t see it). Anyway, we camped at the top of the crater, and gee-whiz, it was cold. We’re [...]
Serengeti National Park
The granddaddy of them all, the highlight of the Africa, the crème de la crème, THE Serengeti National Park. The climax of the 41 day trip to Africa was the Serengeti National Park. Sure you could say our expectations were high, but it didn’t matter. This place was fantastic. Even if the millions of wildebeest and zebra already migrated [...]
Catching Up
So as you can probably see, we are a little behind in writing our posts. So now that internet is a more readily available and Jill has been hounding me, we are going to get out of Africa soon enough and on to Europe. It’s just so hard to not be lazy, because not everything [...]
China
No, we didn’t go to China on this trip, but… We heard that China has banned our website in the People’s Republic. Apparently, it is a little too racy for the millions of people that want to view our site from China. Crazy business.
Zanzibar
On the ferry ride from Dar Es Salaam to Zanzibar Matt showed his first sign of weakness on the trip: he managed to get seasick (I of course had to make my customary trip to the bathroom as is common practice on boats unfortunately). He maintains it was food poisoning from the chili flavored banana chips [...]
Chobe National Park
Just outside of Chobe National Park, we stopped at a campsite that was appropriately named “Elephant Sands”. Multiple elephants congregated around the watering hole to drink and bath probably about 100 feet from the bar where we were eating our typical lunch of cucumber, tomato and mystery meat sandwiches. The highlight of the actual park was the sunset cruise, [...]
Zambia
After paying the outrageous Zambian visa charge of $135 for Americans (not having a choice to go to the Zimbabwean side because of the absolute disaster that Mugabe has created), we saw the magnificent Victoria Falls. They are the second largest behind Iguaçu Falls in South America, but still larger than Niagara. The water level was the [...]
