Archive | May 2012
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Disneyland
Dispatch Africa 2012: The Great Rift Valley stretches over 3,000 mi. spanning two continents from Mozambique in southern Africa across Egypt, under the Red Sea, through Israel to Syria in western Asia. It is a geological fracture in Africa’s crust so large that it can be seen from space. It is the result of two […]
Lost and Found in Nairobi and Other Oddities
Dispatch Africa 2012: When we landed in Kenya yesterday, the weather was quite warm, something or other Celsius, and our transport vehicle had no air conditioning. Duh. 3rd world. Stuart and I fiddled with the nameless vehicle’s windows for several minutes to get two of them cracked, just in the nick of time to rescue […]
On Safari in Limpopo
Dispatch Africa 2012: Well, we went from stranded on the roadside and overnight in a dumpy hostel to living the high life at Trophy Game Safaris hunting ranch outside Polokwane, where the wild game gourmet food is fabulous and the African plains vistas, dotted with gigantic termite mounds and leggy acacia trees, are breathtaking. Our […]