Adventuriety
After our morning with the Hadzabe we stopped to visit a family of the Datoga Tribe. The Datoga tribe has a much larger population than the Hadzabe and place great importance on cattle in their culture. A man becomes a Datoga chief when he marries his first wife. The first wife then chooses the second and the husband must buy her with cattle. The second wife choose...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
We got up very early this morning with the help of my now favotie alarm clock, although I would set my phone’s alarm and be up and ready to go by the time coffee arrived so that I could sit for a few minutes and enjoy the decadence of it all. My night had not been restful. It sounded like the wind was going to...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
We drove for a long time today. It was the fourth day of our safari, and I was feeling a little calmer about the whole experience. We had all made it out of Tarangire alive and I even had the frivolous thought of hoping to see a Cheetah before we left Tanzania. I didn’t know it at the time but I would spend a lot...
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Adventuriety
I always thought that pictures of the animals in Tanzania took months to capture. I assumed that the animals would be hard to find and then hard to actually see. Those professional photos probably did take some work but there are infinite photo opps with many different animals. Tarangire will spoil you with the variety of animals in an incredible setting. Tarangire National Park is the...
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Domesticiety
We have been home for a little over 24 hours and it is nice. My bed feels really good and I was able to wash every scrap of the stinky laundry. It was a treat yesterday to wear clothes that I had not seen for eight weeks. Scott told me that I looked cute; I think it was just because I wasn’t wearing the same...
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