Day 181 Today marks six months since I left home to live a life of travel. I am not sure where the time went, but it has become more and more clear to me that I hope this never ends. There have been tremendous ups and downs, all through Asia and Australia; all have been […]
Solo Female Travel Stories: A ‘Not so Young Woman Abroad’
I often see comments on my posts about solo female travel asking if most of who is on the road are gap yearers and 20-somethings. If I’m in my 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and upwards, will I be the only one? Will I still be able to meet people and have a good time? Meet […]
7 Tips for a Better Ngorongoro Crater Experience
The Ngorongoro Crater was so-named by the Maasai people, the original inhabitants, to mean the gift of life. It’s so lush and green, with jungles along the crater rim and green grasses in an otherwise savannah-like Rift Valley, it’s no surprise they chose this name. The crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled […]
How to Book an Amazing (and Affordable) Safari in The Serengeti
Tell me, when you were a child learning the alphabet, wasn’t Q always for ‘queen’, and X was for ‘xylophone’? And what was Z for? Z was for ‘Zebra’, wasn’t it? Such was my conditioning as a child in suburban California, dreaming of animals in Africa for as long as my memories go back even though […]
The Breathtaking Vistas of Lushoto, Tanzania
The campground guard grasped my hand tightly and with enthusiasm, switching from grabbing my thumb to my palm, as handshakes are done in Africa. He asked me where I’m from and when I said ‘America’ he closed his eyes as though he was trying to picture it. “Does the sun come up every day in America, like […]