“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous September 21, 2023 This is a break from our regularly scheduled programming. Just a check in to let you know how things are going. I apologize as there are not very many pictures. I’m doing very well actually. Although there are days…

“Time is limited and the dream is boundless; therefore I am always in a hurry.” Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum September 16-22, 2023 The Burj Al Khalifa, the world’s tallest building – for now, is a very impressive structure at over 2,700 feet tall and something you look for when you come to Dubai. But I wasn’t…

“Nothing is black or white.” – Nelson Mandela September 1-9, 2023 I realized I’ve never shared why I write this blog. The main reason is to integrate what I’ve seen, heard and thought in each place I visit. I write it the day after I leave a country, sometimes too quick to be well edited-my…

“It’s so off the charts and off anybody’s radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find someone who’s been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.” David Douglas August 19-September 1, 2023 I normally write about what I see that is different or unique about a place, but…

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert August 15-18,2023 You need to be prepared to go with the flow when you travel. I thought I had a direct flight from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, so was pleasantly surprised…

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless then turns you into a story teller.” – Abu Battuta August 6-15, 2023 Bumpy, dusty and amazing! A safari was one of my bucket list items for this trip and I had a general sense of what to expect – drive around in a jeep and see some wild…

If you believe in something and put it in your mind and heart, it can be realized. – Eliud Kipchoge August 1-6, 2023 I considered my five days in Nairobi as rest days between the go go go of organized tours. It’s time to do laundry, planning for the next phase of my journey, contact…

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert July 28-31, 2023 Everywhere I went in Uganda, I received a warm Your Are Welcome, which is a wonderful way to be greeted.  When I arrived at each of the lodges where I stayed, I was given a…

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes July 15-25, 2023 The first thing I have to say about Greece is – it was HOT, extremely hot, over 100 degrees hot.  Anytime we caught even a little bit of breeze, we were…