Baby elephants are flippin’ cute
My sister and I paid a visit to the elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. I guess it’s technically the “David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust,” but most people generally just call it the “elephant orphanage.” I had been to the nearby Nairobi Safari Walk before, which also has an orphanage, but this is a whole new ball [...]
Eating mangoes in Dar
We’re finally in Dar es Salaam and, despite the heat, we’re leaving no street unexplored! The road from Mbeya to Dar is long, and we apparently picked the wrong bus, because it took over fourteen hours to get here (damn, do we really need petrol again, for the third time?). It was kinda unnerving to [...]
Pump your own gas!
I’ve been visiting the USA for a few weeks now. Home is San Diego, California, but my twin sister Randi lives in Portland, Oregon. I have a bunch of old friends strewn along the California coast, so it seemed like a good idea to drive up to Oregon instead of flying. California and Oregon are [...]
The Safari Will Not Be Televised
Randi and I are back from our East Africa safari but, other than the few pictures we uploaded along the way, we have nothing to show for it! My fancy Nokia camera phone decided to eat all the pictures we took. There are lots of great stories to be told, though, like the day I [...]
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.