Africa
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First Experiences in Tanzania – Arrival in Dar es Salaam and Heading to Work
More Details: First Experiences in Tanzania – Arrival in Dar es Salaam and Heading to WorkBefore the days of this blog, I would send periodic emails to family and friends about my travel. At first it was report that I’d made it to wherever and then I started adding some of the things I was seeing for no real reason other than I wanted to tell someone about anything interesting…
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Can’t a Guy Just Get Out of the Sinai Peninsula? Please?
More Details: Can’t a Guy Just Get Out of the Sinai Peninsula? Please?Moses was not the only one trying to get out of Egypt… There are three travel stories of mine that family and friends greatly enjoy, remind me of, and ask to re-tell. One is easier to tell than the other and it involved a monkey and me in Tanzania. But that is for another day… …
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Photo(s) of the Week – Going down the Nile in a Felucca
More Details: Photo(s) of the Week – Going down the Nile in a FeluccaMany moons ago I went to Egypt for the first time, deciding -on a whim- to join several co-workers who had planned to go for 7-10 days with no plans other than a plane ticket. Among the many things we did, we hired a felucca to take us around for 24 hrs from Aswan to a point…
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Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!
More Details: Photo of the Week – New for the Blog!A new add-on to the blog… I have so many pictures from the places I have been to… since pictures sometimes say more than 1,000 words (or “1K” words to be more modern…), I’d thought I’d share them. No use just having them on my laptop! Though I will not be able to post the…
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Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling Cairo
More Details: Visiting Old Cairo – and Feeling CairoI am fortunate to have visited Cairo two times: once in 1998 and then in 2007. The first with friends and the second for work. However, while we hit some of the key places to see in Cairo in the first trip, one grave mistake was not to explore Old Cairo… Old Cairo is the…
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On the Shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza and on to the Serengeti
More Details: On the Shores of Lake Victoria in Mwanza and on to the SerengetiIn early 2007, I went to Tanzania for work reasons and I was excited to get to this part of Africa. Two other entries in this blog cover the trip over and some observations about Dar es Salaam. This entry will share more of the logistical items about my visit to Mwanza, the actual stories…
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On the Way to Tanzania, via Dubai
More Details: On the Way to Tanzania, via DubaiMy first international travel with the non-profit organization I work for was Tanzania. Originally intended as a one week review of operational controls, a second week was added to the trip to get me exposure to the field work we do in the developing world. I jumped at the opportunity to see firsthand what my…
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Meeting the Past and Present South Africa in Johannesburg
More Details: Meeting the Past and Present South Africa in JohannesburgJohannesburg is one of the most important cities in Africa (Cairo, Lagos and Nairobi come to mind as competitors for the top spot…). It is a city of contrasts and, for me, a place where the past and the current South Africa came together – I ended up with a much better understanding of the…
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Sampling South African Wine in Stellenbosch
More Details: Sampling South African Wine in StellenboschReady to hit a new wine region? How about Stellenbosch in South Africa, a short drive east of Cape Town? The Wineries So, we finally hit the road east from our hotel to get to Stellenbosch. We made a few stops in the wine region hitting some wineries pretty much randomly. We did apply enough…
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Reaching the End of Africa…
More Details: Reaching the End of Africa…We started the day by going to the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as the Ocean Volvo Race was expecting its first arrivals on the first leg of this round-the-world regatta that morning. They were expecting the Ericsson team to be the first to arrive from Europe and, sure enough, when we got there, the…