As we wake up, Trish bumps her head on the headboard. Again. She bumped it there before going to bed too. And she did it in Tydon. And in Shindzela. How does one hurt themselves in bed so much? Only…

As we wake up, Trish bumps her head on the headboard. Again. She bumped it there before going to bed too. And she did it in Tydon. And in Shindzela. How does one hurt themselves in bed so much? Only…
The guys at the ‘Kuro’ campsite in the Serengeti make us some hot showers by boiling water on a wood fire and lifting 10 gallon jugs onto the ‘shower’ tube system behind our tents. It’s a trickle of lukewarm water,…
Lily has compressed herself in a shivering clump about the size of a basketball. Outside our tent are honks and screams and cackles and roars in the blackness of night. Hoofs are trampling by but something else is going on…
The camp is lively at dawn but it’s freaking cold. I can hear multiple languages from different tents. On the backs of the jeeps are the tour company names that I didn’t choose – Bob’s tours, Roy’s tours, Duma’s tours, and others…
One wakes up with the same expectations every day on adventure travel – that it will go according to plan, and you’ll see some great shit. Some of the time, you are very wrong. I awake rested. Zanzibar is great,…