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0June 14, 2007
Wherever You Are …

“If I see one more World Heritage sight,” Craig said, shaking his head with a smile as walked up to Kiyomizu Temple, the world’s oldest wooden structure. We’d already seen...
0June 9, 2007
Torii Treks and Buddhist Beats

After a week at K’s Backpacker’s Hostel in Kyoto, I started to feel right at home. (And it wasn’t just because of all the Christian Lassen paintings of Hawaiian scenes...
0June 3, 2007
Jaunting in Japan

They say that the vastness of the universe is both an outward and an inward thing. Astronauts and physicist explore the expanses of the stars, the galaxies, the universe, in...
0January 30, 2007
Out of Africa

Had it been six weeks since we’d been in Cairo? As we touched down, time seemed to whiplash, condensing all that we’d seen in four other countries into a flash...
0January 29, 2007
The New Jerusalem

Lalibela was the reason Brent wanted to come to Ethiopia. It had definitely been first on the list for Robert and me, too. Our last site in Ethiopia, we were...
0January 28, 2007
Thyme for Breakfast

Apart from the kids asking if we needed napkins, the most common question tourists like us would hear in Gonder was, “Mister, you wanna go to the mountain?” Many people...
0January 27, 2007
Castles, Kids, and Audacious Art

The nickname “Africa’s Camelot” might be a bit of an exaggeration for Gonder’s Royal Enclosure — it was in pretty shotty repair. There was enough there to let the imagination...
0January 26, 2007
The Keepers of the Lost Ark

We humans are funny creatures. There are many things that comfort us: a hot meal, a soft mattress, a gentle breeze … but what we really like is familiarity. We...
0January 25, 2007
The Nile of the Pearl

I was excited for our tour of Murchison Falls Park — our last safari! — but neither Brent nor the guesthouse manager would have thought so. Somehow it took three...
0January 24, 2007
Madmen and Mzungus

Uganda is another country whose name might send a chill up the spine of someone who’s paid attention to global events over the last few decades, albeit surely less than...
0January 23, 2007
The Little Engine that Could

It had been a busy three weeks. After jumping from Thailand to Egypt to Ethiopia to Tanzania to Rwanda, we were ready to chill out for a few days. Uganda’s...
0January 22, 2007
Silverbacks in the Mist

There had been plenty of gorilla permits to go around. Jenny and Eric got theirs, we got ours, and (still trailing one another), we were scheduled for trekking on the...