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I have been hoping for this type of family experience most of my adult life.  When Dana and I began to conjure this crazy plan -- way back in 2000 -- it all seemed so distant and unlikely.  Would we find the time?  Would we be able to pay for it?  Well, we told ourselves, we'll make the time and we'll take loans if we have to.  What could be more important than this? Now through good fortune and good timing, we can make it happen.  The kids have NO IDEA what awaits them. Frankly, neither do Dana and I.
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Samburu Cell Phones

Samburu Cell Phones

(Greg) Today we changed our flight out of central Kenya so that we could visit the Wednesday market in Wamba. This region is almost exclusively Samburu, a colorful, proud and very traditional tribe of pastoralist cattle herders. Samburu people walk 20k or more to meet and trade on Wednesdays. It is a social as well […]

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Video Summaries

Video Summaries

We have already accumulated so much video and so many pictures that I spend hours culling and editing, organizing and backing up.  I spent the last few days in Zambia and Kenya cutting videos that try to capture the highlights of the last few African countries we visited. Those videos join the same recap video […]

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Bushmen and Bone Readers

Bushmen and Bone Readers

(Greg) In a single morning in Botswana I was reminded of how different human lives can be, first by five San Bushmen and second by an old man in a little village called Gweta. The Bushmen wandered Southern Africa long before all the tribes came down from the North. They are the nomadic hunters and […]

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Showing Their Strength

Showing Their Strength

South Africa is a land struggling with hangovers. Apartheid and racism ripped the country apart just a few decades ago, now, as Mandela’s infectious optimism may be less present, South Africans are left to keep the flames of reconciliation and progress alive. Likewise, the World Cup was a source of pride and unification, but now […]

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A Rhino Irony

A Rhino Irony

(Greg) There are less than 2,000 black rhinos left on the planet. At a remote camp in Northwest Namibia – just south of the Angolan border – we had the rare chance to track and find one. The presence of a black rhino this far north was a surprise to the local staff as their […]

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Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks Bearing Gifts

When we conjured this long itinerary, we wanted to ease into the dislocation we were likely to feel as our year proceeded.  We started with Iceland’s wild outdoor adventures with the benefit of little jet lag and lots of English. We then purposefully moved to family time in Sweden, then on to Athens and its […]

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Road Scholars

Road Scholars

(Greg) It is 7:05 PM. A worse-than-Muzak Greek version of “For Your Eyes Only” is crackling over a single stereo speaker behind the bar and I am looking out at 4 students huddled around their teacher/mother in the hotel lobby teaching intransitive verbs and predicate nouns. I know those specifics only because I just asked. […]

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The Great Shedding

The Great Shedding

What separates Homo Sapiens from all others is our ability to synthesize data, project into the future based on that data, and adapt accordingly.  I am tickled to state that my wife has, once again, reconfirmed her standing among h.sapiens.  And she did it with little prompting from rarely-sapiens like me. Those who have followed […]

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Iceland On Video

Iceland On Video

This is a small island but a vast landscape. Geologically very young, it feels primordial and wild, stimulating and exciting.  For us, it was the land of our first adventures…

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