travel

Laikipia grew smaller and smaller as we took off in our tiny airplane on the grass landing strip. We landed in the Maasai Mara, greeted by two more Land Rovers and more drivers and guides who were ready to fill us up with more adventure. This was different from our…

I better get my act together and write about our adventures in Kenya this past summer now that I finally have this blog format that will show off the pictures a little better. We packed up and left on June 6th, met up with Elle from Utah and Max and…

We spent one of our mornings in Uganda teaching safe water/health and hygiene in the shade of a big tree in a little village on the very outskirts of Mbale. Almost fifty percent of the residents there are affected with AIDS.  We met a health intern living there who is…

One of the favorite people we met in Uganda was our driver, Isma.  He has so much light in his face, and it was fun to see where all that light came from when he took us one day to meet his mother and family.  He and Emma set up…

As a preface, this really isn’t “part 1” since I already wrote about Uganda HERE and HERE, but this is the first part of what we were there to do.  I just have to say once again that I fell in love with this organization we worked with (called Family Humanitarian). …

There were lots of crazy parts of this trip. Trying to teach a whole slew of attentive students on the fly, all seated with wide, waiting eyes under a metal make-shift covering in the middle of Uganda, endless driving over dirt roads filled with gigantic potholes in our van, a frog…

When Dave and I moved our small little family to the desert almost eighteen years ago, we made a deal.  You see, although we loved our years in Washington D.C. (six of them) and in some ways we felt like we were tearing ourselves out of a life we loved…

One of those things we (actually I should say Dave) figured out in those logistical negotiations was that most of the flights we found went through Dubai.  And that we may as well extend our layover in that unique place to check it out. So we did.   We had one…

These are my parents: Look at them!  Do you see that light just oozing out of those smiley faces?  I love them so much.  And they have loved each other for over FIFTY YEARS.  Yep, their anniversary is coming up this summer. So they have been trying to figure out…

We start school TODAY here in the desert.  And I’m sure there will be lots to say about that, but for now I’m in denial, so let’s go ahead and continue with the adventure in NYC with my bookend children. Part 1 is HERE. This trip was a little tricky…