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,…
Our goals for today are modest by adventure standards. We want to see a museum, score some souvenir loot and eat some food at the night market. It feels like a ‘day off’ because we can eat breakfast late and…
There is a couple arguing about 10 feet away. She seems anxious about the storms that are over Chumbe island, our destination for the day. Indeed, they look dark and one can see the rain falling. I hope that her…