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
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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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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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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Adventuriety
I’m not sure what day this happened anymore but Ashley and I were looking at the week ahead for her English lesson. Scott is really into being prepared and looking ahead for the kids’ lessons (sigh) and I am trying very hard to be a team player. I am a procrastinator through and through and had a successful college career being a procrastinator so looking...
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Adventuriety
Koblenz literally means “merging of the rivers” and is located at the convergence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers. The city is over 2000 years old and it seemed like a good place to see something interesting and historical and recover from our setbacks. It was also where we would celebrate Scott and Ashley’s birthdays. A few notable things happened during the time we spent...
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