Two male Thomson’s gazelles face off Today’s Tanzania Tuesday entry is about members of the antelope family. Thomson’s gazelles are ubiquitous. They were, by far, the most common form of wildlife we saw in our travels. They’re twitchy and prone to bolt and perhaps the size of a blue heeler dog. You’d think that it [...]
Tech Tuesday is on temporary hiatus, as it’s been replaced with Tanzania Tuesday. Today’s topic is lions! In Swahili, “simba” are one of the highlights of any safari. Everyone wants to see lions. Luckily, these cats are rather easy to find while on safari, as they’re rather large (compared to say, leopards), and tend to [...]
Looking down into the crater of the Ngorongoro Conservation area around sunset.
“My name is Asim. This is Africa country.” So said the driver sent to fetch me from Julian Dean International Airport. We stepped into the night and sped towards the Dar Es Salaam CBD. “Speak Swahili?” I fished around a bit and managed “jambo!” but after that, nothing. Asim, satisfied, repeated “This is Africa country. [...]
The flight to Dulles was slightly delayed, not enough to be alarming, merely annoying. I ran to the empty departure area, slightly out of breath and as I checked in with the gate agent, she smiled and ripped up my boarding pass. It took me a half beat to catch on as she mumbled about [...]
As is my tradition before leaving on a long international trip, I’m up too late blogging instead of doing other, more reasonable things, like sleeping. But at least I’m mostly done packing. I’m excited by two new innovations on this trip. First is the REI self-stowing Zip daypack, which is rather self-explanatory. In it’s self-stowed [...]
an appropriate start to the week Made it to BRU with a minimal amount of fuss. Well, it was minimal if you don’t count the 24 hour layover in Chicago due to my inbound flight from DEN getting delayed for malarky, making me miss the single flight to BRU that United fly per day, but [...]
gatos de Toledo It’s Wednesday and changes are afoot. Things are coming up milhouse. Not really ready to reveal anything yet, so instead, let me distract you with pictures of cats. Rawr!
woman with grandson, Lijiang, China Photographic spring cleaning. I’ve been sitting on quite a few photos from various trips, etc. that I never got around to posting because it was just too painful to process them with an ancient Mac mini G4 with a mere 1GB of RAM. Old Lijiang city in China was one [...]
old man with a cane, Lijiang, China This is what I feel like after this particular week of employment. On the other hand, if my facial hair looks that amazing some day, sign me up. I may have to stop shaving for the rest of my life beginning… now. The WSJ quotes Bernanke as saying: [...]