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• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  reflections from a Superman Digital World

  06.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’ve spent a lot of time in the last few weeks driving around East Africa. Lots of time to reflect on just how great (and how relatively unexciting) the Oak Street Bridge is after a few freeze-thaw cycles compared to a normal day driving here.
  Roads
  First of all, be grateful [...]

• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  no one knows me here, and it’s pouring anyway, so I think I’ll have a little pee

  06.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Our planned road trip into Tanzania was scuttled when we found out the roads after the rainy season in the western part of Tanzania aren’t so good, which would have meant 12 hours on a ferry and another 12 hours of 4×4 mogulling with attendant retching. That and the border areas between Burundi and [...]

• 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  safari #1: when elephants (almost) attack

  05.26.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  We got back from our first safari last night: all the way out to the western tip of Uganda, spitting distance from Rwanda and the DR Congo and all their associated troubled histories. Several tourists were kidnapped in the area a few years ago, but I think things have calmed down a bit now, [...]

• 2007 Egypt-Jordan

  Giza gong show

  04.27.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Hearts racing, we bounced and jumbled our way up the hill and there they were.

  Judging by the few ant-speck humans around the base (we were at the back end: no tourist hordes in sight), you really get a sense of just how massive these things are and how there’s nothing you could do [...]

• 2007 Egypt-Jordan

  Michael Jackson and S&M: The Worst Title Ever

  04.27.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  There’re any number of ways the scam could run when booking a tour in Egypt, and it’s too hot right now for me to come up with truly imaginative ways.

  The car might be missing essential safety equipment: it may not have seat belts. Or brakes.
  You may, without prior consent, be sharing the [...]

• 2007 Egypt-Jordan

  tired but jubilant

  04.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here we are in Alexandria after our first 3 days in Cairo. What a country so far. We were warned about the people, the ceaseless hassling for baksheesh, but it hasn’t been that bad at all. In Cairo most people were either friendly or too involved with living in Cairo to bother [...]

• 2007 Cuba

  the whole all-inc thing

  03.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’ve met some pretty hardcore, backpacker-Nazi types on the road who shun packaged-travel and all who would even dream of partaking. Apparently it’s a badge of honour to stay at a place costing 50¢ a night where you have to shit in a coffee tin in the corner.
  Though we’re nowhere near that [...]

• 2007 Cuba

  oh my commanding wife, she want to destroy my life

  03.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well, three days into the all-inclusive experience and we’re well impressed, especially after the dismal analogue we lived through on our honeymoon in Tunisia. The people here have been uniformly friendly and as unmercenary as it gets, though the odd peso tip still is greatly appreciated and elicits the widest of smiles. 4 [...]

• 2007 Cuba

  su camisa, por favor

  03.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’re off to Cuba in 4 hours – heading to the airport now to see what sorts of seats are still available. We’ve duly packed lots of goodies for the various Cubanos we’ll be coming across, hoping to make some friends. If you ever go to Cuba and you see some random guy [...]

• 2007 Cuba, Vancouver

  where to go?

  03.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s become a bit of a game: wake up in the morning, and see what the wackiest travel destination we can come up is:
  Last week we got an email forward for a cheap package to Jamaica.
  Jamaica was sold out, so we started looking at the Dominican Republic.
  Found out the DR can be a [...]

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