Category Archives: Africa

Amboseli Park KENYA – 2019

August 28, 2023 – 11:45 am

A troop of baboons doing what they do best CHAOS

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The Loss of Caul’s Vision

March 9, 2023 – 3:44 pm

On March 4, 2020 after a simple breakfast David, my guide, and I left Kibo Hut on Kilimanjaro to descend to Hurumbo Hut. I turned often to eye Africa’s tallest mountain rimmed by hoarfrost. Near a grouping of old volcanic rocks David said, “We can get the Internet here. Maybe even a phone home.” I […]

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From Here To Timbucktu

December 26, 2021 – 2:38 am

When I was a child of the 50s in Maine, Timbukto symbolized the most remote destination on this Earth, although Bob Hope and Bing Crosby never made a ‘road movie’ to there. One day during geography class my teacher at Pine Grove Primary School in Falmouth Foresides traced her finger across the world map to […]

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What Will Be Tomorrow – Kilimanjaro

August 6, 2020 – 10:09 pm

The 2020 Kili Initiative team left Kibo Hut at midnight. I wished them well on the final stage of the climb. The falling snow turned to sleet. My brother Ma’we said, “You should come, my brother.” “I know.” I had failed to summit in 2019. My right ankle was weak and my thin gloves guaranteed […]

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Rongai Gate to Simba Hut 2019 – Kili Initiative

March 30, 2020 – 4:29 pm

After a quick box lunch we set out for Simba Hut. I proceeded before the Kili Initiative Team. We were trekking through a rain forest. The team chattered without cessation and I preferred quiet. Not complete silence, because the trees were alive with life. Ma’we led the team. I drained the last of the Konyagi-Crest […]

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