After much ado (about nothing), we landed at a hotel in Voi whose main attraction was it was family-friendly (yay?) and offered daylong safaris. The three Texans planned to head to Mombasa to see a friend, who would be home in a couple of days. We thought I would recover for a day and then …
Early signs appeared that challenges other than 100 miles would mar the Great Walk that we had so looked forward to. If you've been reading this blog, you'll know that we prepared thoroughly by doing death marches starting in D.C. when we signed up for this insanity. Robin also took the warnings about how physically …
Before we embarked on this crazy trip, I was referring to this portion of the journey as "the Disney safari" because I thought it was a rich American's idea of going into the wild to see the animals. I thought our walking safari would be much better. Mea culpa! In a harbinger of miscues to …
We arrived in Nairobi in the evening. We were whisked through immigration after being fingerprinted and driven to our hotel. So far, so good. Security is tight. Bomb-sniffing dogs, a mirror to sweep under the car, and x-ray machines for our bags and ourselves. Having made it through the security gauntlet and checking in, we …
Or, Giving Up Pains Me I'll start at the beginning with an outline of the trip. In subsequent blogs, we'll delve into the details. We arrived in Nairobi on Monday Feb. 19 and were escorted through immigration and to the driver who took us to the Villa Rosa Kempinski, a lovely hotel in the city. …
This will be our last blog for several weeks. If Steven doesn't get eaten by a lion (or maybe even if he does), our (well, if I get eaten by a lion, it won't really be our blog anymore, will it?) next blog will appear soon after March 12 when we will have lots of …
In a week. we'll be headed to Nairobi (with a pit stop in Valencia over the weekend). Hard to believe. Seems like we planned this latest crazy adventure a loooong time ago and suddenly it is upon us. So close, in fact, that we have completed our final training death march. (Don't tell Steven, but …
Plus: My new favorite place This week we welcomed our niece, Genny, and her friend, Z. We always have an open door for friends and family and we are very glad they are taking advantage of it. We haven’t had so much giggling in our lives since … forever! We’ve mostly been wandering (as usual). …
Getting out of the Schengen zone seemed like a problem at the time we were wrestling with the bureaucracy in Valencia, but now that we are back in Istanbul, it feels like it’s all just worked out. We decided to stay on the Anatolian side, so we’re temporarily living in Asia. It really does feel …
Paris loves jazz. We love Paris. We love jazz. But we haven't had a chance to put them together until this visit. We kicked off our not-holiday weekend with a trip to 38Riv, a teeny, tiny jazz club (about 40 people were able to squish in (tiny is being quite generous, the room was about …
Doing It On The Road 