Here’s my final post about our 2012 trip to Africa. If you haven’t already, be sure to read about our coffee plantation tour, Kilimanjaro climb up the Lemosho route, and Safari to Tarangire, the Serengeti, and the Ngorongoro Crater national parks. And now…the adventure continues: Volunteering Fiasco Sep. 25, 2012 We didn’t actually manage to…
“Did you ever wire that money? We still haven’t received it.” A jolt of panic shot from my heart to my fingertips as I read the words on my e-mail screen. My breathing became more constricted, my palms moistened and my heart revved up. I had made a significant down payment on the most expensive…
A few minutes before midnight, I left the cockpit of the C-130–vibrating on its giant skis, propellers buzzing–and placed my fat white boots onto the crunchy snow, blinking into the sunlight reflecting off the sea of white stretching ever outward to fall away with the curvature of the earth. In the foreground, a small crowd…