Given our love of music and food, Beth Ann and I had been talking about visiting Austin ever since we met, and unfortunately I had never made it down for SXSW. So, when we saw that the Memorial Day weekend weather was going to be classic Seattle spring (read: rainy), we booked a last minute…
I just confirmed the first leg of my trip – Rwanda – to see the Gorillas. Because I have gotten so many worried looks and comments about the danger of the country, I have decided to put everyone at ease and for the first time book a tour from the US. It…
As anyone that has talked to me about travel knows, London ranks in my top ten favorite cities in the world for good reasons. However, for some reason this trip, I kept noticing things about London (and England in general) that I dont understand. Since I am holed up at the Hilton on a layover,…
When I arrived at London airport for my flight to Nairobi today, they told me that the flight was oversold. I was angry at the time and I made the importance of getting on that flight know to them since there are not that many Kenya Airways flights that connect to Kigali, Rwanda from Nairobi….
There was a great segment on 60 minutes tonight about the recent murder of a Congo mountain gorilla family earlier this year. Anderson Cooper reported about the mass murder as well as got video of his trek into the Rwandan side of the Virunga mountain range. The video brought back amazing memories of spending time…
I was sent this link and I had to write about it because 1) it is so rare that twin gorillas are born and survive and 2) because I had spent time in Bwindi NP in 2004 watching the gorillas and they are just amazing creatures. Check out the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081203/sc_afp/ugandawildlifegorilla_081203121032 …