by Mike Wood | Oct 2, 2025
We’ve spent the last couple days in Tarangire national Park, in Ngorongoro crater, and Serengeti national Park. So far we’ve seen thousands of gazelle’s, a herd of about 500 cape buffaloes, hundreds of wildebeests, dozens of warthogs, about a hundred hippos, a couple...
by Mike Wood | Sep 28, 2025
Kate and I climbed Mt Kilimanjaro from Sept 19th to 26th. Mt Kilimanjaro is a mountain where the only way you can climb it is with a guide company that uses porters. Unfortunately, we chose Climb Kili for our tour company. I would recommend avoiding them if you...
by Mike Wood | Sep 27, 2025
The post about Kilimanjaro requires a lot more time so I’ll give a quick update about Arusha and then get back to Kili later. We changed hotels from the Summit Lodge (no hot water, spotty wifi) to the Acres hotel (great hot water and wifi, much better room and...
by Mike Wood | Sep 17, 2025
We’ll start our Mt. Kilimanjaro climb tomorrow (well, the first night is with the trekking company in a hotel in Arusha). Because we are not wedded to a time schedule. We did not book in advance. Instead, we just checked with trekking companies when we got over...
by Mike Wood | Sep 16, 2025
I experienced something that’s never happened to me before. After about two days of flying, I get up from sleeping. All the cabin windows are closed so I have no exterior visual clues. I asked the flight attendent what time it was. She said 6:20. I had to ask is...
