Weird Activities and Awkward Encounters at home and abroad
It only took two weeks of being back home from Africa before I started getting restless again. Another big trip is not really in the budget right away (not to mention the struggle to get time off of work), so I had to keep it close by. I know I’ve written about it before, but…
Last weekend I took an impromptu (the best kind) trip to St. Augustine. I got a great deal on a hotel and really needed to get away. Apparently being in the same place for a week and a half is a bit much for me. The hotel I was staying at, the Casa Monica, gave…
My last full day in Africa I finally got to go to the place I had heard everyone mention throughout my trip, Maji Moto. I knew it was a hot spring and that there were fish that would eat dead skin off of my feet, but that was about the extent of my expectations of…
It’s pie time! Today and tomorrow Celebration, FL hosts the annual Great American Pie Festival, so now seemed like a great time to take a break from the re-cap of my amazing African adventures and focus temporarily on things back home. What’s the exact opposite of Africa and about the most American thing in the…
It’s no secret that, like many African nations, Tanzania is lousy with corruption. Everyone I talked to that had spent any amount of time there had a story about being pulled over by the police for something ridiculous and then asked for a bribe. The car being too dirty, wearing flip flops while driving, marriage…
I spent the bulk of my time in Tanzania staying with friends in Arusha. It is interesting to see how the permanent residents live. Plus, I got to spend time with my favorite locals. I would be lying if I said that the travel clinic here in the states didn’t make me a little nervous…
Actually, you should always wear shoes everywhere. It’s not my most adventurous quality, but I have a weird thing with feet. Just wear shoes, there are very few reasons not to. I’m not talking about starving 3rd world kids that can’t afford shoes. Even the very poor here were not what we, as Americans, envision…
I’ll admit that my first few days in Africa were probably my favorite, (mostly because I met these guys that you can read about here and here) but after a few days on safari, and one night back in Arusha, I headed to Zanzibar. It was great because Zanzibar is about the most exotic sounding…
After an early morning game drive and watching lions eat breakfast at Ndutu, we headed to the airstrip for a short flight to Seronera in another tiny plane. I’d gotten a little less scared of them by this point. Once at the Seronera airstrip we met up with a driver from ANG’ATA Camp in a…
After approximately 29 hours of travel I arrived at Kilimanjaro around 9pm. The airport was shockingly small (or so I thought before I had been to the bush “airports” in the area). It did make customs easy to navigate. I had been a little wary about waiting until arrival to get my visa, but the…
