I’ve had a blog makeover! It’s been a long time in the making, and the stars were finally in-line for me to revamp my travel site. I’m really excited to introduce you all to Wandering Footsteps 2.0 — welcome to my new home!
Wandering Footsteps: Wandering the World One Step at a Time » A travel journal following a family on their overland trip around the world.
Author Archives: After seven-and-a-half months traveling overland through East Africa, it’s safe to say it wasn’t my favorite region of Africa. Too expensive, too overcrowded, too polluted. But even though I didn’t love East Africa, I’m happy I went. Travel isn’t about loving everything you see and do and every place you visit. It’s about venturing forth and checking the world out. Go, I say. Always go.  Seven months, seven countries, some 10,000km. With our return to Kampala, our East African Loop – otherwise known as the Extended Honeymoon Loop – was completed. We’d looped the loop. A mixture of deja-vu, transit travel, and self-reflection would be the theme of our onward travel to Nairobi.  Poo-ganda. That’s what Bruno and I have been calling it since we left last December. And that’s probably why both of us had a tiny knot vibrating in our stomachs as we prepared to cross back into Uganda. Would our second try in one of East Africa’s most beloved countries prove more successful than our first?  Dian Fossey is one of the most famous names in primate study, and she conducted her research right here in Northern Rwanda. Even though we couldn’t come face to face with her infamous mountain gorillas, Bruno and I decided to follow in Fossey’s footsteps. It was an illuminating journey. |
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