Author Archives: There is something about seeing an animal in the wild that is unspeakably special. Perhaps it’s the feeling that I am in the only one in the world experiencing this moment, and that, had I passed this way but a moment before or after, I would have missed it. Our first night in Hwange National […]  I’m sat in my own bed. I have clean hair and shaved legs. The cats are sat, purring, at my feet.All is calm, all is quiet.Alex left Zimbabwe today to return home. Our trip is over, work has started again. Life is back to normal. What a strange feeling, that after almost a month of […]  My trip to Egypt started out badly. I arrived in Addis Ababa, expecting to have a two hour layover before boarding my flight to Cairo and meeting my friends, Alex, Fay and Steve in the airport and heading to our hotel. Instead, as I glanced at the monitor in the Addis airport, I realized that […]  My trip to Egypt has helped me articulate why I value travel so much – it dissolves preconceptions.I have wanted to visit Egypt for at least 12 years. This desire has always stemmed from my interest in Ancient Egypt – the pharoahs, pyramids, tombs, hieroglyphics… I expected my trip to Egypt to largely be passed […] I was planning on writing a blog entry tonight. It was going to be a mundane entry about my routine here in Zimbabwe and my upcoming trip to Egypt. I was going to describe how I have been fairly content here these past few weeks – doing lots of horseback riding (including in the rain, […] |
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