On day 5 of my adventure, Alfred dropped me off at Lake Manyara Airstrip where I took a small plane to Kogatende airstrip in the northern Serengeti. There was a herd of impala running and stotting across the runway as the plane was landing. Quite a welcome that was. I was met by my new […]
For my second safari drive, Alfred took me to Lake Manyara National Park, which is very near Ngorongoro crater, but is a very different environment. While Ngorongoro, once you get to the bottom of the caldera, is a wide open plain that makes spotting animals at a distance easy, Lake Manyara is a forested area, […]
My private safari guide, Alfred, picked me up at 6:00 am sharp from Acacia Farm Lodge for a full day game drive in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This is the place where I am meant to see the “Big 5” safari animals. These are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, cape buffalo, and elephant. I’d say I saw […]
I arrived in Kilimanjaro International Airport on June 6, 2021. This is my dream trip, one I have wanted to take since I was a teenager and saw a documentary on the Serengeti. Today that dream is a reality. Well, not today since I had spotty internet for the first few days, but I am […]
I was hoping that Donald Trump would be the last president. By that I do not mean that I wanted him to serve in perpetuity, but rather that he served as proof that having a president at all is a detriment to democracy. I have long argued that we should end the office of the […]
If there is only one absolute truth in the universe it is this: We didn’t ask to be born. Stated in another way, we could say that nothing that has ever existed has ever chosen to exist in the first place. This should be self-evident. Even a supposed eternal god was denied this choice as […]