So after almost 7 hours in an airport with nothing in it besides duty free shops, I finally boarded my plane to Accra. Which, as Rahul correctly warned me, was full of smelly people.I landed in Accra with no real issues, I was proud at the time.I barrowed someone's cellphone to call my host family to tell them I was late but was on my way.According to my guidebook's recommendation I successfully bargained down to a fair taxi price and was on my way.One minor prob...

So yes, I am back in the country and have been for three weeks, but I mainly write these blogs as a journal or record for myself to have, so I am going to attempt to finish it anyways. Plus I had enough people ask me if I had recovered from my altitude sickness (the concern is appreciated, but yes I am fine, unless your lungs collapse you are automatically cured once you are in lower altitude). I was also asked by people if I ever saw my brother, so I figured...

Monday morning we flew to Masai Mara from a tiny little airport with practically no security.We were on a tiny plane that made stops at the main lodges in the middle of the park.After a 20 minute flight we landed on the red dirt of the Mara in the middle of nowhere basically!We stayed at Keekorok lodge, and due to a friend of Rahul's who worked for Wilderness Lodges, we got a pretty amazing deal and some nice perks, (probably wouldn't be staying at Keekorok other...

So after a day of rest in Nairobi, on Sunday, Neha, Rahul and I headed to Nanyuki to visit the International Humanity Foundation's orphanage. (The International Humanity Foundation is the organization I volunteered for in Indonesia, and where my family now sponsors a child.) I brought my extra bag of luggage from the US with donated clothes for the kids, and I brought a bunch of art and craft supplies to teach an art class. The center's director recommended we ...

The Climb It's 4am on day three of our climb of Mt. Kenya, we are one hour in for the day's climb to Peak Lenana. It's below freezing, windy, I am nauseas, we both have killer headaches, we have not eaten breakfast to avoid puking on the way up, Neha's legs have never been in this bad of pain, and little do we know we still have 5 more hours and 600 meters to climb to reach the peak. It is at this moment we both decided this is officially the hardest thing ...