I have a photo album called “Good places I have eaten lunch.” Clearly, this hippo pool in the Masai Mara reserve will be in it. But it was breakfast, and it was fantastic. Hippos are way more massive when you see them in their environment. I keep…
My guide in Selenkay Conservancy, (awesome Porini Adventure Camp) Wilson, took a photo of me jumping for the joy of life at the lookout in Amboseli National Park, with Mt. Kilimanjaro towering off to our right behind the clouds, and elephant and ze…
It is a tough life, to learn about Masai traditional culture and life, in the village of one of your guides. Very tough. — in Selenkay Conservancy of the Masai Mara, near Amboseli National Park, Kenya [https://www.google.co.ke/maps/place/Amboseli+N…
Hello from Kenya! These guys are Big John and Jackson (guess who is who), my guides at Lion Camp. They are Masai. The safari outfit employs 98 percent of its staff as Masai tribes people, and their camps are on Masai owned conservancies. This is w…
I am in Africa living my dream because I hit girls on rollerskates. True story. I played roller derby. It was another dream of mine since I was a kid and watched these badasss chicks sprint around a track and hit each other. I got my wish when a…
I remember when I was in Budapest, after four days or so I was ready to move on. I went to the station to get a ticket for the afternoon train. It was more than three hours late, so I went back to the hostel and stayed another day. The next mornin…
Why do we use red dye No. something we can't pronounce when Mom Earth supplies so many tiny miracles all the time? A visit to his village and just 2 minutes in, Wilder cracked open an "achiote" fruit, which has long been used to colo…
After four hours from the final port town of Nauta, the Maranon River forks and the Yanayacu gives way — a calmer, narrower river in the Peruvian Amazon with bright green reeds nestled on either side. Another half hour, and the first thatched-roof…
On the discussion of whether or not my hiking boots can be saved or need to be doused in gasoline and set on fire (of which I am the only one still arguing for saving) ... Me: "Well, they got bad when I fell into an anaconda hole up to my wais…
