Wandering through the small town of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is an apt way to acclimatize to “city living” after spending ten adventure packed days on game drives. Granted, Victoria Falls only has a population of about 8,000, but with paved roads and concrete sidewalks under my feet, it felt like real city living. Small […]
Last night I fell asleep with about 70 impalas standing at attention just outside the door of my bungalow. These short-haired graceful animals had roamed into our riverside camp in the late afternoon and remained standing, with heads held high and noses pointed north, until almost dawn today. I am in Zimbabwe. We fill our days […]
Fourteen hours into my flight across the Atlantic Ocean, I finally opened the shade at my window seat to have a look, and I see Africa. I SEE AFRICA! Forty thousand feet below, the land is copper in color, and some tan spots wind about across the flat Namib Desert. At the eastern edge of […]
One morning we disembarked our boat on the Yangtze and wandered into Fendgu, a local village by the river. All the people were short, under 5’6”! There were no other foreigners in sight, and we really stood out. They stared. Were we rock stars or freaks? They watched us as much as we watched them. Could we […]
Excerpt from an email: Nepal continues to be wonderful. This morning we flew a 25 minute private charter flight from Pokhara (Annapurna region) back to Kathmandu. We flew at 11,500 feet, higher than some clouds, and stared straight into the faces of some of the world’s tallest mountains. I felt like I was on another […]