Travel

Lake Natron

July 30-31, 2023 I woke up to multiple texts from friends wishing me a happy birthday since DH2 had texted every one the night before. What a lovely treat. The road to Lake Natron was very bumpy road, by far the best Indiana Jones ride ever. When I saw the volcano DH2 was going to […]

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Tarangire National Park

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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Zanzibar

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

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South Africa

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

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Namibia

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

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