Radiant. Infinite. Vast. And as Van Morrison says: Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know. We have never seen stars like this! We are in Waterberg Plateau National Park, a brick-red sandstone table mountain range that seems to go on forever and is surrounded by Nambian savannah. After driving north from Windhoek, we arrived here to an almost empty park. Our group ventured a steep climb up to the plateau before s...

The next few entries in our blog will be about our G Adventure overland trip. This one, the first of three or four entries, sees us travel by air from Arusha, Tanzania through Kigali and Johannesburg to Livingstone where Victoria Falls sits on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. After a day in Livingstone, we continued our 21-day-trip-in-a-truck and journeyed to Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta and the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. In order to reduce the co...

We will be behind on our blog for awhile. Sorry, our faithful readers! You will just have to be patient. We volunteered for 2 weeks in Arusha,Tanzania then went on a 6-day safari to Tanangire, Ngorogoro, Serengeti and Manyara National Parks. We are now heading to Livingstone, Zambia for a 21-day G Adventure overland tour and will have little Internet access. As you know, Jim spends many hours choosing and processing his photos and hasn't had much time lately to...

I am touched by this beautiful world and our exploration of it this past 7 months. As our friend expressed in one of our blogs, the universe is treating us with kindness. We had reports of other people who went on safari and whose experience was marred by the behaviour of one of their group members and/or the group dynamics. We were so lucky with our safari-mates: Jim, myself, Jackie and Irina - a compatible group who collectively valued sustained time observing...

Two weeks of 'Hokey Pokey', ‘Head & Shoulders, Knees and Toes’, ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ and various other shena****ns with 2.5-6 year olds was plenty for me! Much to my surprise, my 2-week volunteer placement was at the Best Center for the Blind (BCB) working in the mornings at the ‘nursery’ (preschool) with the children (with sight) of blind parents and then providing basic health education for the parents in the afternoon...