It’s hard to overstate the simple unadulterated pleasure of driving around in the dying light — far beyond the reach of any cellphone tower — just searching for wild animals.
A TYPICAL SCHOOL DAY
As we begin to address the mountain of questions that have poured in, we will start with the one that we unequivocally hear the most: “What do the kids do about school?” Once you tell a stranger that you’re taking a year off to travel the world, this is far and away the first thing […]
THE FIRST DAY
On the coast of Kenya, if you wake up early enough, you get to witness a few minor miracles.
A WALKING SAFARI
Once we forded the river, we finally found the starting camp for our “Walking Safari.” Months earlier, when we signed up for this Walking Safari, we really didn’t know what the hell we were getting into. We were just following the suggestion of a friend of a friend of an acquaintance. See, for many months […]
THE MANY FACES OF AFRICA
We snapped all the “faces” below in the Samburu and Masai Mara regions of Kenya: Sub-Saharan Africa wasn’t on our original itinerary. It was our thinking that in the future we’d make Africa a trip unto itself. But as we began to circumnavigate the globe, we realized it would be plain wrong to make an […]