The Pressure to Perform in “Safari School”
When Henk and I decided to go to Tanzania on safari, I didn’t realized we had inadvertently enrolled in Safari School…
Avoiding the Amazon’s “Tiny 5”
Africa has their ‘Big Five’, the 5 most coveted animals to spot and photograph when you are on safari: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and the cape buffalo, considered to be the most dangerous of all. But the Amazon has an entirely different group of...
An Artefact That Speaks to the Fragility of Earth’s Creatures
The Art: Hand-carved wooden giraffe from Tanzania The Story: I typically make it a habit not to purchase anything while I am travelling until the end of any trip, for fear that anything fragile or precious may not survive while I am still on the move. (I am, in fact,...
