It’s 12:30 in the morning at the Houston International Airport, and I’m 10 meters from the locked door to the KLM crown lounge, staring wistfully at the “will return at 6am” sign being held in the hands of the smiling blue-suited cardboard cutout of a KLM flight attendant. I do remember agreeing and accepting that […]

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What a great little mini-vacation right before going home for Christmas! Christine and I just returned from four wonderfully relaxing days in Medellin, Colombia – a one hour plane ride from Panama City. We’d been hearing great things about the place for the past four months here and I’d always wanted the chance to visit […]

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I had some free time this evening so was finally able to get around to getting some nice pictures from my Panasonic LX-5 uploaded to the blog. Every single article has had the weird mobile-app caused formatting fixed, I’ve corrected a lot of typos that not having a spell checker running caused, and most importantly, […]

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After the unpleasant circumstances of my prior blog post, it was nice to meet a friendly face back in DAR. Our hotel, Triniti, was staffed by a pleasant Zambian employee named Xavier. In case you didn’t know, Zambia is one of those African countries that’s adopted English as their native language, so our apologies about […]

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Soon after we left John and Endallah behind us, we were on our way back to Karatu for another bicycle ride – the one that we were supposed to have on the first day. Renatus, who we’d already met that first night, would be our guide. A relaxing three hour bicycle ride – on much […]

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And I thought Swahili was hard! We’ve just spent the past two-ish days hiking the farmland and small village of Endallah, south of Karatu, and home of the Iraqw tribe. If you had told me I’d be sitting down and eat dinner with a group of Iraqis (it’s how they pronounce their tribe’s name) I’d […]

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