Morning light and still raining. David confirmed I hadn’t been dreaming in Italian. He also shared my concern about how we’d leave the camp and ultimately get back to Moshi. At this point, it had officially been pouring for twelve hours. From the dining room, we could see the brown river below us moving at [...]
Archive for January, 2010
27 Jan
The Year of the Pachyderm-Day 7
New Years Day! No customary cold, grey drizzle, or college football. Instead, a game drive through the now-familiar Tarangire National Park which at this time of year, has the largest concentration of elephants in Tanzania. After a week of traveling in various national parks, including staying at a myriad of lodging establishments, Lena and I [...]
25 Jan
Auld Lang Syne-Day 6
Spending the last day of 2009 at Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania with one of the surviving tribes of hunter/gatherers on the planet? Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Prior to our once-in-lifetime visit with the Hazda people, we awoke the last day of the year to say goodbye to the Kranwinkles, who were leaving [...]
20 Jan
Man (Men) Down-Day 5
“Mom, Anders is sick,” the voice lightly knocking at the door reported. Uh oh. We were up early in order to start our three-hour drive to the Empakai Crater. This new development was not in the plan. Poor Anders lay in his bed in the room next door, pale as a ghost. Evidence suggested it [...]
19 Jan
World of Wonders, the Eighth To Be Specific-Day 4
What had been crawling in my bed overnight? This was no ordinary mosquito bite festering beneath my watchband. The bright red, hard circle looked like a miniature target and was becoming increasingly hot. Snake? Spider? I shuddered to think. Moving on in our travels, we drove through the Serengeti watching animals along the way, towards [...]
