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the Maasai Mara–a safari, part 2
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the Maasai Mara–a safari, part 2

ByShawni September 18, 2019May 2, 2023

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…

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Laikipia–a safari, part 1
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Laikipia–a safari, part 1

ByShawni September 17, 2019May 2, 2023

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…

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the beauty of clean water, tribal names and goodbye — Uganda part 3
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the beauty of clean water, tribal names and goodbye — Uganda part 3

ByShawni July 16, 2019August 26, 2019

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….

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a day in the life in Uganda, and a daring repelling adventure — Uganda part 2
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a day in the life in Uganda, and a daring repelling adventure — Uganda part 2

ByShawni July 15, 2019August 26, 2019

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…

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building and teaching — Uganda part 1
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building and teaching — Uganda part 1

ByShawni July 12, 2019August 26, 2019

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. …

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adventure along the River Nile
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adventure along the River Nile

ByShawni July 11, 2019May 2, 2023

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…

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Africa: shifting up our Boggle game
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Africa: shifting up our Boggle game

ByShawni July 10, 2019May 2, 2023

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….

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