Mount Kenya: Mountaineering at Its Best

by | Jan 24, 2026

Note: I used AI to enliven this blog We booked our Mount Kenya climb before leaving home, and Mike was especially excited. Unlike Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya’s highest peak requires real mountaineering skills—technical rock climbing and glacier travel. Not a walk-up....

Johannesburg – Four Days of Enjoying Mall Life

by | Jan 2, 2026

From our idyllic, nature-laden safari in Botswana, we flew to Johannesburg, South Africa. I was hyped up about it and a bit worried about the crime-ridden city our fellow safari companions had told us stories about. We heard about tourists being followed into public...

Botswana – Safari Adventures

by | Jan 2, 2026

Botswana is not as well known as a safari destination in the USA, but it is a terrific place to go on safari. They are very conservation oriented and manage to keep wildlife viewing crowding to a minimum. This is a key difference between Botswana safaris and ones you...

Zimbabwe – Beautiful Victoria Falls!

by | Dec 29, 2025

I had been to Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe side 11 years ago with Richard and Rin after we visited Rick studying in Cape Town, South Africa for a semester. Victoria Falls is an amazingly wonderful site to behold and I was excited to share it with Mike and see it...