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 […]
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 […]