Getting to Kigali: Shit happens…
Sunday, August 4, 19:45 Everything’s been going so well! (Except for getting sick…) I suppose something had to go wrong at some point.
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Victoria Falls
Friday, August 2, 14:00 We just crossed the border from Botswana to Zimbabwe and our on our way to Victoria Falls, about an hour away.
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Botswana wrap up: Pelo and DumaTau
Sunday, July 28, 10:30 I’ve been bad about journaling. But the experiences have been so much about visual and aural stimuli that it’s so hard to translate them into words. I’ll write a little about our routine, which is slightly different here at Pelo camp than it was at Qorokwe.
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Qorokwe: Wow!
Wednesday, July 24, 21:00 Just “Wow!” I don’t know how to write about the extraordinary moments of today. I just know it was extraordinary.
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Last Day in Cape Town
Wednesday, July 24, 04:00 Yes, it’s 4am. Yesterday I slept right up until my alarm went off at 7am. That was my first full night’s sleep of this trip. But today I’m up again in the middle of the night. Rather than lying in bed hoping to get back to sleep, I’m writing.
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A tour to the Cape of Good Hope
Monday, July 22, 19:00 No visit to Cape Town would be complete without heading to the Cape of Good Hope. That’s what we did today on a private tour with a charming and knowledgeable guide named Danny.
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First day in Cape Town
Saturday, July 20, 20:30 I love the ocean! The sound of the pounding surf, the immense energy of the waves, and the patterns of water undulating, crashing, and splashing, all delight me.
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The Journey to Cape Town
Wednesday, July 17, 16:25 We’re on our way! The first leg of our journey is a one-hour flight from GDL to MEX. There we will spend the night before continuing across the pond tomorrow.
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African Safari: The final plan
One of the things that seemed completely remote and unlikely for me as a younger person was the idea of going on a safari. Safaris were exotic, expensive, and beyond my aspirations. As I’ve made travel a fundamental part of my life, the idea of going on an African safari went from being a dream…
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Merrily We Roll Along
I’m currently staying with my mom in central New Jersey. (But see the note below.) We have two family weddings. One was last weekend in north Jersey, and the other is this coming weekend in Connecticut. I couldn’t make a trip to the northeastern US without scheduling a day in New York to see a…
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15 years of travel blogging
In May 2009 I wrote my first entry in what ultimately became this blog. Here’s a look back at 15 years of travel blogging.
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My favorite “other” museums
There is a long list of great museums (The Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the British Museum, the Vatican Museum, the Hermitage, and the Smithsonian, to name a few) that travelers, and even most non-travelers, know about. Many are destinations in and of themselves, reasons to visit the city where…
