May 4th, 2010
In Timbuktu I could not help but face the very same realization that the many European explorers faced when they finally reached Timbuktu: it is just a motley collection of mud huts in earth’s most inhospitable desert. That being said, there was something glorious about reaching the unreachable. Timbuktu is, to this [...]
Feb 6th, 2010
Oh the perils of traveling with three beautiful women… A fond look back with some photo highlights.
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it was worth schlepping the champagne thousands of miles by anappleanight
we never did figure out how to tie a turban by [...]
Dec 23rd, 2009
The best laid plans… ahhh, ever so true; never more so for me than during these past days.
But first… Paris! First class was surprisingly ehhh, as the seat did not recline flat, which left me at an awkward sloping angle, with every patch of turbulence sliding me further down the seat. That and the guy [...]
Dec 19th, 2009
Nothing elicit here, just some good old fashioned clippers at an over-priced and over-sexed hair salon in metro-Detroit.
This was me before:
During:
And after:
OK, I am ready. Let’s do this…
Dec 17th, 2009
After three months, multiple agencies, and countless emails and conversations, not to mention a scam artist, I am very pleased with our final tour package in Mali. After a week in Burkina Faso with Victoria, we will meet up with Katie and Elisa in Djenne to start the Mali leg of our trip. Here’s what [...]
Mar 19th, 2008
Hello Friends,
This posting has been a long time coming; parts of it have been written in Cairo, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, Eilat, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Newark, NJ, Detroit, MI, and Baltimore, MD. My recent travels might surprise many of you, as last you heard I had successfully fled Kenya and made it home to [...]
Jan 1st, 2008
Kenya held parliamentary and presidential elections on Thursday, December 27, 2007. They followed a short but intense month or two of campaigning. Every forecast was for free, fair, and quiet elections in Kenya, Africa’s shining jewel of democracy, and with that in mind I returned to Kenya from holiday in Europe the day [...]
Dec 25th, 2007
Dear Friends and Family,
Happy holidays from Rome! I arrived here yesterday after an overnight journey from Mombasa. I left the grueling African sun and 100+ degree weather to arrive here in Italy to the cold cold weather of December in Europe… without a jacket. Luckily, today my jacket will be arriving care of my ladies! [...]
Dec 16th, 2007
Dear Friends and Family,
Happy holidays from Rome! I arrived here yesterday after an overnight journey from Mombasa. I left the grueling African sun and 100+ degree weather to arrive here in Italy to the cold cold weather of December in Europe… without a jacket. Luckily, today my jacket will be arriving care of my ladies! [...]
Nov 16th, 2007
The crowd surged up Kenyatta Avenue, stopping the traffic behind them as their white kanzus blew in the wind and their gold embroidered kafiahs glistened in the noonday sun. It was Friday. Mid-day prayers had just ended at the mosque. Now Salaama Baridhwan was making her final procession through Mombasa’s streets; this procession was for [...]