Yes, I’m really writing about how to ride a camel, and perhaps I should write how to successfully ride a camel. After all, if the rider falls off, then it can’t really be considered riding a camel, can it? Camels have really cool elbows and knees, and while they may seem disjointed and wobbly, they aren’t. When […]
Моско́вский метрополите́н – Moskovsky metropoliten – Moscow Metro I cannot read Cyrillic. Nor can my sister who was traveling with me. But we still stood in the underground Moscow Metro station with a color coded transit map in hand, and thought that if at least we couldn’t read, we could at least decipher the red, blue […]
From a highway’s black ice in Alabama to gravel mountainous roads in the Kingdom of Swaziland, my fun Chevy Spark rental cars provided a great backdrop to some of my American and African adventures. It all started with a severe winter ice storm moving across the southeastern United States and airlines canceling thousands of flights, including my next […]
My first title of “Safety & Security” did not sound very fun or interesting; after all, that would certainly not be the typical travel tale one writes home about. However, “Watch Your Six” has a bit of intrigue, does it not? Watch Your Six is a term I recently learned, and learned well. Working my […]
Lemon Meringue. There are not two better words in the English language to describe a recent sunrise over the Indian Ocean, a real lemon meringue sunrise. Ignoring the fact that I was visiting the quaint little coastal town of St. Lucia in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, and ignoring the fact that I had […]
While recently trying to plan a 10-day excursion into neighboring Mozambique, I was starkly reminded of how much we depend on internet access. The excerpt below – from a conversation between myself and a local South African, Andre – gave me pause to wonder if my dependence was a need or a want… Me: […]
Looking in to the eyes of a foreign person wearing his military camouflage is intimidating, no matter what you are doing or where you are. In our case, we were simply driving across an isolated mountainous area and not 100 yards into our cross-mountain road, I made eye contact with the first pair of eyes […]
It was not to be an average Sunday afternoon drive. Forget that it was actually a Monday, but when there aren’t any available seats on a small bush plane for days, and a pair of safari lodge managers needs to get back to work, we launched an arduous transportation effort to return them to their […]