There’s an audio version of this post, just click play. It includes a track, Savane, by Yukikaze from the album Africa. Thanks, Yukikaze, for using Creative Commons.
It’s taken me about eight weeks to prepare for my trip to East Africa. I had to send my passport off for a visa, and get a lot of shots, and there were a few odds and ends that I needed. Throughout the course of my day, I’d tell people what I was up to, where I was going.… continued…
How do these things happen? I don’t really know, and also, I kind of do. A long unwinding of threads, with some, “Really? But how did I get so lucky?” helps explain it, but a lot of it feels like magic. As though things I didn’t know I wanted walked right up to me and said, “Hey, would you like to have a adventure you never imagined?” The answer is always — should always — I hope, will always be “Yes.… continued…
