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A Maasai Grandmother’s Tale

While on safari, we were privileged to meet a Maasai grandmother, ask questions about her life, and listen to one of her stories. Here’s what the experience was like. “Supa!” comes the gravelly, baritone shout from one end of our camp’s lounge tent. Our group looks up. We were expecting this encounter, but like most […]

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Serengeti Safari

We had always planned to take a safari on our trip, but didn’t book one in advance. We weren’t sure about our itinerary, and couldn’t decide whether to do one in South Africa or head up to Kenya or Tanzania. A safari in South Africa’s Kruger National Park would be logistically easier for us (since […]

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Travel interrupted: Coronavirus

When we embarked on this trip, we had no way of knowing a global pandemic would erupt while we traveled. This is a quick note to our readers that through lots of luck and a slight change in travel plans, we’re healthy (as far as we know) and are someplace relatively unaffected so far (New […]

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Nate’s Review of the South African Coast

Food The food on the coast was good. There is a restaurant that had good burgers. Also the restaurant was on the second floor. Also there was a restaurant we ate at twice and the first time it was 100 degrees Fahrenheit Sights The sights on the coast are bad. There is a stupid museum […]

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Ryanair (Airline Review 5)

So we flew Ryanair from Marrakesh Morocco to Seville Spain which was not a very long flight, about an hour or so. Let’s just say this was a really weird flight. Seats The seats were OK. They did not recline at all because that could break and they were really thin so they could fit […]