Under African Skies

This is my last day in Africa for ... I don't know how long. It doesn't even feel like it was almost 800 days since leaving the States and feels even stranger thinking that in just over one day I'll be back in Minnesota - if I make all the connecting flights that is.

Goodbye Africa, at least for now. You've given me experiences and friendships I'll treasure for a lifetime!

Latest Pics of the Trip

I was fortunate enough to get in on a camping safari to Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti and Lake Manyara National Parks. Some of the highlights couldn't be captured by photo, like hearing an elephant devour a tree and a lion growl just meters from your tent around 11pm. I survived many mosquito (and a few tse-tse fly also) bites, a head cold and travel fatigue. The journey is almost at an end!

Tomorrow I head to Zanzabar with a volunteer I met on the safari. Will be fun to just sit on the beach, read a book and look out over beautiful blue waters of the Indian Ocean.

Here are the pictures:




- Lioness laying around in the Serengeti





















-Hippo pool in Serengeti



















- Rare sighting of a Leopard in Serengeti


















- Herd of Giraffe with Zebra in Manyara National Park


















- New Year's Day on Lake Malawi
































- Mount Kilimanjaro





























- Elephant getting some water at Ngorongoro Simba Campsite





















- Sunrise in Ngorongoro Crater





















- Lions relaxing after feasting on a kill in the crater

New Cell Phone Number

I'm in Tanzania and finally bought a sim card. My new number is:

+255 783 352 853


I think that should work. Anyway, the country code is 255 and my cell number here is 0783 352 853. You just drop the zero when you add in the country code.

Happy Holidays to all and I'm thinking of you all back home.