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Safari, Days 4-5: Samburu
We flew from Amboseli to Samburu National Reserve in a Safarilink Cessna 206 (our takeoff was slightly delayed as they had to shoo zebras off the runway, you know, as so often happens). We arrived in the mid-afternoon and were immediately taken on a game drive. Each location we visited was unique – the terrain,…
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Safari Days 2-3: Where We See Still More Animals and Nearly Get Stuck in the Mud
We left the Nairobi Tented Camp and drove to the Porini Amboseli Camp inside the Selenkay Conservancy the borders Amboseli National Park. It was a 5 hour drive (and the only drive of the trip, thank goodness – all other travel to parks was via small plane) and was our chance to experience the Kenyan…
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Safari Day One: Where We Encounter A Veritable Bushel of Critters
As I mentioned in my previous post, we arrived in Nairobi at 6am after an easy 7 1/2 hour flight from Paris. Our first hurdle was a pretty confusing customs experience. We had all of our paperwork (e-visas, vaccination records, passports) all done and ready to go but the customs guy in our line was…
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The Safari Adventure Begins But First Stop, Paris
The day before we left for Africa I came down with laryngitis and a cold (of course). CHuck had been sick the preceding few days and was on the road to recovery when my symptoms started presenting. Happily it was not in my ears, just my throat and chest so flying wasn’t painful. But I…
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East with the night
I’m paraphrasing the title of a great book (well, I thinker’s great, anyway) West with the Night, a memoir by Beryl Markham of her life in East Africa. Yes, at last our big adventure begins! We leave for Paris today, where we will layover for two days before making the last push to Nairobi. We…
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On the road to find out
We just returned from a Thanksgiving trip to the East Coast. We spent the holiday with family in Washington DC and the week preceding it on the Eastern Shore of Maryland – one of our top contenders for retirement. It combines access to water (the Chesapeake Bay) and relatively easy access to big cities (Baltimore…
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