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Africa

Visiting the Masai

After we left the crater, we headed out to Serengeti national park. On the way there we decided to stop at a Masai village to see how they lived. I don’t think any of us was under the illusion that this was anything other than a tourist village, basically set up so they [...]

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Africa

Ngorongoro Crater

In Arusha we arranged a jeep trip into Ngorongoro crater. With thousands of animals including elephant, giraffe, zebra, lions, flamingos, hyenas, dingos (not really!) and about a dozen variety of gazelles, this area is recognized as one of the premier wildlife viewing areas in the world. We spent two days in and around [...]

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Africa

Headed out on the road

Internet access in Africa is spotty, so my updates will be coming with a lot less frequency. Right now we’re on day five of the tour, and it’s been fantastic! There are 21 of us on this trip, and as I expected, I’m the only American. The rest are a pretty much 50-50 split between [...]

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Kenya

I arrived at the airport in Nairobi sometime around 6pm. It took about 30 minutes to get thru all the formalities of immigration. I was hoping to be able to just buy a $20.00 transit visa since I was only going to be in the country for less than three days, but the [...]

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  January 27, 2007 The redesign is coming along slowly, but progress is being made. I've been experimenting a lot with google maps, and integrating both geotagged photos and .gpx GPS files. Check out the "Trail Maps" categorized posts for the results...definitely still a work in progress!

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