Category Archives: Travels

July 8: Diani Beach, Kenya

Same, same – essentially no different. Another cookie-cutter day in our beautiful but slightly dystopian paradise: get up, see a great sunrise, go eat breakfast (finally, this time with coffee, milk, and sugar all at the same time!), go down … Continue reading

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July 7: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We’re now resigned to getting our coffee with the last bites of our … Continue reading

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July 6: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We’re still getting our coffee with the last bites of our breakfast… BAM! … Continue reading

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July 5: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We’re still getting our coffee with the last bites of our breakfast… BAM! … Continue reading

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July 4: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We’re back to getting our coffee with the last bites of our breakfast… … Continue reading

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July 3: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We served ourselves at the buffet, ordered and had an omelet cooked, and arrived … Continue reading

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July 2: Diani Beach, Kenya

At breakfast: we were seated by the hostess who asked if we would like coffee. We both asked for coffee with milk (hot milk, the African way). We served ourselves at the buffet, ordered and had an omelet cooked, ate … Continue reading

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July 1: Diani Beach, Kenya

This was our first day of “planned chill-time” and we took complete advantage of it. We both still awoke before dawn but today we just rolled over and went back to sleep. Later, we explored our resort and mostly just … Continue reading

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June 30: Tsavo East to Diani Beach, Kenya

Similar to most facilities in the national parks, our lodge was surrounded by an electrified game fence. And by electrified, we don’t mean tickle-your-cow-electrified; theses fences have current strong enough to discourage adult Elephants! In the included image, you will see … Continue reading

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June 29: Pachyderm Encounters of the Closest Kind – Tsavo East Nat’l Park

We drove from Tsavo West National Park to Tsavo East National Park(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_East_National_Park) this morning. The four hour drive took us from the dramatic cinder cone vistas of extinct volcanos, including Kilimanjaro, to the more familiar savanna and woodlands of East Africa. The … Continue reading

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