Category: Exploring Africa
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Samburu
In rainy Samburu, one small ray of sun broke through the clouds. Wrapped in a shuka, hearing champagne pop behind me, I felt the raw magic: deep connection to land, animals, sky—and something loving and ancient.
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Overhead on Safari I
Since as far as I can remember I have been a collector of people’s sayings. My grandmother used to have a book where she would write down famous quotes and sayings, and we would always be fascinated by the content. True to the way she was, she collected mostly insightful sayings with some sort of…
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Dehorning unicorns
Rhinos are my favorite. Everyone that knows me has no doubt about this. There was a time in my life when I knew exactly what they smelled like, what their voices sounded like, how soft the back of their ears was… These memories, just as rhinos themselves have started fading in the last couple of…
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Lifeversary
I have never been too big into celebrating milestones. As a family we had a tendency of barely acknowledging the big things that make the headlines in family newsletters. I’m not sure how or why, but that was the way I grew up. We missed birthdays, graduations, weddings and many other celebratory occasions because of traveling or…
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The Equator line.
Disclaimer: this post is an anecdotal post about incidents I’ve experienced in countries where corruption abounds. I certainly do not feel all cops are these way and I consider them, overall great guardians of peace and justice on most occasions. There is beautiful chaos that characterizes countries on the Equator line. I say beautiful because…