Adventuriety / Recuperiety
We spent a little over four weeks at home. The kids loved being home. The only downside for them was that their friends were busy with school and sports, but they were still able to have a little social life and they had each other and the comfort and freedom of home and high speed internet and Netflix to keep them happy and busy. They...
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Adventuriety
We said good-bye to our guide Ayoub today. We had spent the last five days and countless miles and hours in the jeep together. He had taken care of us and taught us so much about the Tanzanian animals and people. Ayoub would drop us off at the nearby little tiny airport and we would board a little tiny airplane and fly to the Serengeti. For...
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Adventuriety
I may be beating a dead horse here, but forgive me as this is still in the time frame of my forty-eight hour mind warp. We left Lake Eyasi and drove back through the town of Karatu and to our next lodge, Gibb’s Farm, which is a short 5km outside of the town. There is a lot to see driving from lodge to lodge even if the Safari...
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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 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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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Day two of our safari started out again with the special wake-up call of coffee and cookies. I really am training Scott on morning coffee protocol, and the sooner the better. We took our coffee outside and sat on the patio of our little house and listened to something or some things munching and crunching their way through the high grass. Shortly, a family of...
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Adventuriety
We saw a beautiful rainbow on the drive to Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. It gave me courage and I almost felt excited about the next ten days. We would fly directly to Kilimanjaro International Airport, a nine hour flight. The flight was smooth, even for my paranoid flyer standards and I got excited when I realized that the huge river below us was the...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
We landed in Amsterdam yesterday morning after ten days on safari in Tanzania. I can’t believe our time in Tanzania is over. The trip was not my idea, and would never have been my idea. I didn’t even want to go, but I came back learning more than I could have ever imagined. There are many parts to this story so I will just start at...
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Adventuriety
We have been in Berlin, Germany for two days now and it has been a challenge for me. I am trying to manage my expectations, expectations that I didn’t even know I had. I think those may be the worst kind of expectations. This little side trip to Berlin just kind of happened. Both Scott and Grant wanted to see Berlin and we had some...
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