by Mike Wood | Nov 30, 2025
“Every day I stay in this room, I get weaker; and every day Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger.” – Captain Willard, Apocalypse Now. In this case, “Charlie”, represents other runners I am in competition with and my fitness level in general. Well, that’s...
by Mike Wood | Nov 27, 2025
For all the countries we are visiting, we have had ChatGPT summarize travel guide recommendations of places to visit. And we supplemented that information with Guide books and recommendations from people we have talked to. But, we have come to find that it is easy to...
by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
We’ve been in Africa for eight weeks. Thus far we’ve had four major problems. The first one was when our train from Dar Es Salaam to Mbeya had everyone disembark in the middle of nowhere because the train in front of us had crashed. We were left scrambling to find a...
by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
After our poor experience on Lamu Island, we had an incredible experience in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya. We flew from Lamu Island to Nairobi. We had one night in at the excellent Razana hotel. Then on November 11th we caught a bush plane flight to the Finch...
by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
We went to Lamu Island, a world heritage site and a recommended place to visit in Kenya. Don’t go. There was a lot of trash and there’s not much there. The Airbnb that we had reserved was a disaster. Missing windows, screens with holes in them, dreary and...
by Mike Wood | Oct 26, 2025
After leaving Nairobi, we headed to Lake Naivasha and Hell’s Gate National Park. We had booked an Airbnb for six nights using $320 of our Airbnb credit so that we could stay for free. The pictures looked good and it was supposed to have A/C, a bbq, wifi, etc....
