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...

Uganda – Not as easy to get around as we thought…

by | Dec 7, 2025

In order to see more of the country and do some activities that weren’t centered around animals, we selected other areas to see. One place was Murchinson Falls where the most powerful waterfall in the world is (as defined by most concentrated force of water through...

Ethiopia – Great Sites, Difficult Traveling

by | Dec 5, 2025

We did a 13-day tour of mostly northern Ethiopia, including the area called Tigray which has warnings against tourists going there. I can’t imagine touring in Ethiopia without locals arranging things. The main language is Amharic and it doesn’t use a Latin...

Ethiopia – My First 4 Hours Were Nightmare-Inducing

by | Nov 26, 2025

We flew from Kenya, just having had a magical 3-day safari experience where the lodge we stayed at catered to our every need and continuously wanted to do things for us, to Ethiopia where we would be on an exciting 13 day tour with a local tour company. In order to...

Kenya – Mixed Thoughts

by | Nov 15, 2025

Kenya has some great places to go on safari! If a safari trip is what you want, the lodges, roads and cuisine are a notch higher than in most of Tanzania. But I have had such great safari viewings in Tanzania, that I would still rank Tanzania higher for safaris if...