Visiting the “Chocolate Islands”

Only one degree off the equator lies the tropical island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe.

In the Traditional Way: Mokoro

When the rains in Angola brought the flood waters down to the Delta the nomadic indigenous peoples of Botswana’s Okavango used “mekoro” (pl) to navigate across the waterways to islands to hunt, fish and forage through the seasons.

Trekking Mt. Kilimanjaro for my 30th Birthday

There were months of planning, training, packing, re-packing, and breaking in my hiking boots. Then finally in February 2020 the moment arrived where my dear friend, Julian and & I arrived in Arusha, Tanzania and saw the continent’s tallest mountain – also known as “The Roof of Africa”.

Baobab Trees, Tsingy Rock Formations & Lemurs of Madagascar

On our first scouting trip to Madagascar, we knew we wanted to go where so few had been before: Tsingy de Namoroka National Park