Hang on, I’m Having a Moment…
In conversation with my long-suffering wife, it’s come out that we have different ways of exploring. Devon, I believe, thinks in terms of trajectories: how we will get from Point […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Night Flight
When was it that I let myself get so enamored of my little electronic devices? I was so lost in the screen of my phone (watching “Hemingway and Gellhorn”) that […]
East with the Morning
You’ll notice that despite the opportunities for literary reference, I’ve mentioned none of my favorite authors: neither Hemingway nor Markham, Blixen or the rest of the Out of Africa crew […]
The Rhythm of the Days
The rhythm of the days here in the Wogakurya Hills seems to be governed by the color of the sky. We wake in pre-dawn lavender light with the fading traces […]
The Long Road North
Today, in honor of the summer (here, winter) solstice, we decided to drive across all of Africa. No, not really – it just felt like it. We didn’t even drive […]
Ngorongoro
The dirt is red and moist, covered in lush green as we wind our way up to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. At the top is a cloud forest, […]
On the Road to Ngorongoro
We didn’t see the young reedbuck die. Henry, in the car ahead, noticed a commotion in the long grass by the river and stopped to watch. By the time we […]
Lakmakau
The flat green expanse below where we’re camped in Lakmakau looks like a welcome respite from the dry dust of the rutted roads that led us here. But the soft […]
Tarangire
Gary assures us that the bite of the tsetse fly isn’t all that dangerous. “As long as you don’t swell up,” he says. “Just make sure you don’t swell up.” […]
Arusha
[Okay – we’ve got internet access for the first time in about five days, so I’m back-filling our last few days as I can] I hadn’t meant to drop the […]
David Pablo Cohn 