So there we were –  we’d just finished a nice buffet lunch in Arusha with our new driver and constant companion for the next 8 days,  Paul,  and given him the other 50% of the tour fee for the the safari. He’d just exchanged those cash dollars for literally several million Tanzanian shillings.  We were […]

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It was an embarrassing dinner. Using the newfound Power of the Internet, Christine and I found a restaurant just north of the Millennium towers called Rose Garden that had pretty good Google maps reviews. Side note – I’ve so far been very impressed with the diligence of business owners,  putting a dozen or so photos […]

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“It means, ‘explorer’” said our city bicycling tour guide, Fedinand, this morning, when the first pack of cheering, smiling little children ran after our bicycles,  holding out the little hands to high five us. “It’s not a bad word, I promise. They really like seeing you guys here.” It was a word we’d be hearing […]

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Okay,  I’ll admit that we could really get used this… Complimentary 12 year old Glenlivet, a selection of sandwiches –  both vegetarian and tasteful meat varieties –  and some nice coffee machines. That Chase sapphire card is making itself valuable already…

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I’m sitting on the Van Galder bus to O’Hare, trying out a ridiculously silly looking tiny bluetooth keyboard that my Galaxy S7 is paired to.  Yes,  it’s the first vacation I’ve taken since Germany and Austria with Dozan wa Awtar that I’m not taking a laptop with me…. This will be a 100% phone based […]

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Finally got around to digging out the DVD from our “Celebrating Easter” concert in 2009. I wrote more about it at this post here, promising that if I ever got the footage, I would post it. Well, here it is! It’s “unlisted” on Youtube which hopefully means that the Jordanian production company will be less […]

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