July 29, 2023 In Naginine park, we saw: antelope, giraffe, zebra, elephant, warthog, wildebeest, baboons, crested eagle, Eland, water buck, crown crane, red bill horn bill, spring buck, vervet monkey, marabou storke, ostrich, superb starling, lilac breasted roller, and ripples griffin vulture. We stayed the night a nice hotel with a pool. We hung out […]
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From South Africa, we changed planes three times to get to Tanzania and upon arrival, we discovered that our luggage was never loaded at Johannesburg. Thank you Apple Air Tag. The only thing I was missing was my toiletry bag so I made do. We walked around and had dinner at place recommended by the
After we crossed the border into South Africa, we saw a huge troop of baboons and it felt prescient to future visual treats. We stayed at the Hollywood lodge, a 100 year-old house with no signage, locked gate, and an extremely generous 7.0 rating on booking.com. The room door wouldn’t open from the inside so
The sky was yellow as we landed in Windhoek and quickly picked up our VW Polo from the rental agency. There were baboons on side of road outside Windhoek and I was struck by how flat the landscape was and how similar it was to a CA desert. We didn’t have the correct plug adapter
May 7-14, 2023 On the the Gold Coast for a conference where I wandered the beach and town, even walking down to Surfer’s Paradise. We took a train to Brisbane where DH2 had a university talk and met up with a UCSB colleague. I rode the ferris wheel, walked through the botanic garden and enjoyed
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