Now its time for my favorite road again but this time with a twist. We decided to not drive exactly on the road but next to the road and swap sides from time to time.  This drive was probably the dustiest of all of our days and there were timesContinue Reading

So I woke up to the sound of warthogs grunting around, to find out apparently I know nothing of animal sounds. I told Eric that the animals don’t sound like they are supposed to. Zebra bark like dogs, hyena cackle, hyrax sound like birds, and impalas sounds like pigs. ItContinue Reading

Day 4 of Safari started with a hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti. We had a stunning sunrise, spotted lots of hippos and generally had a peaceful dawn, topped off with a champagne toast upon our landing.Continue Reading

An Unexpected Surprise There is no such thing as sleeping in on safari.  6 AM was go time. We had a long day of driving ahead. Name of the game today was to head north. When I had made arrangements for the trip and the safari I looked at the timingContinue Reading

Day 3 of Safari and its the first full day in the Serengeti. There are spots everywhere, cheetah, leopard, servals! Cats on cats on cats. Today we say more Cheetah than anything else but we also got some headbanging zebra, antelope, hippos everything you see on National Geographic!Continue Reading

Things that go bump in the night Clomp, clomp, clomp. I woke up, hearing the sound of boots on the ground outside my tent. I thought, okay so I guess they didn’t trust me to wake up at 4 AM by myself. I check the time, its 1:30 AM.  Clomp,Continue Reading

Hello darkness my old friend I woke up about 2 AM, I hear the pitter patter of little paws.  Some smaller 4 footed  pawed animals were scurrying about outside the tent.  Soon came the hooves. Then the burgh hrr hrr noises of the lions roaring. I tried to record someContinue Reading

Day 2 of Safari has us leaving Tarangire National Park and heading to the Serengeti. That road was by far the worst road I have been on in my life in all of my travels, but the Serengeti makes it worth it as almost immediately we were in cat country.Continue Reading

Day 1 of Safari in Tarangire National Park. I was so excited to see all of the animals I probably could have done a better job grabbing some of the video. Either way it was fun to take some video of some of what I saw that first day. FutureContinue Reading