Kenya
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Friday, 15 Dec 2006 | Views [1080]
ADP: We seem to have a little problem with the animals of the world stealing our stuff. Well, more accurately, Holly's stuff. First there was the kinkachu in the Amazon that bit holes through her wallet and nearly made off with her shiny new camera. ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Monday, 11 Dec 2006 | Views [1343]
When Holly, Amanda and I decided to take an entire year off from the ‘real world’ to globetrot together, we realized it was a huge commitment. We knew from experience that we were excellent travel buddies, but jetting off for a week’s vacation to escape ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Tuesday, 5 Dec 2006 | Views [9778] | Comments [2]
ADP: As someone who managed to learn depressively little about international geography during my formative years, I barely knew that Kenya had a coastline, let alone a gleaming ribbon of icing white sand and its own rhinestone speckled stretch of Indian ... Read more >
Tags: People
Monday, 4 Dec 2006 | Views [1070]
While we thought the safari would be the highlight of our brief visit to the land of the Maasai, we soon discovered that our most exciting adventure had yet to come. Since we only had one more day to spend with Emmanuel before heading back to Nairobi, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Saturday, 2 Dec 2006 | Views [877]
If you really know The Lost Girls, you know that our favorite activity isn't trekking up Andean mountains, tracking wild African animals, clubbing our way through the capital cities or even sleeping until we're roused from dreamland by endless construction/farting ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Monday, 27 Nov 2006 | Views [830]
ADP: Happy thanksgiving Weekend! (Yes, I know its Monday but you've got a little turkey casserole left in the tupperware at home, right?) As you might have noticed, the girls and I took a little hiatus from blogging and used the time off to ponder what ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Tuesday, 21 Nov 2006 | Views [1065]
Like most of our fellow Village Volunteers, Amanda, Holly and I jumped at the chance to sign up for an affordable 1-day safari organized by one of the in-country coordinators, and a member of the Maasai tribe, Emmanuel. Not only would we be guided through ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Monday, 13 Nov 2006 | Views [784]
ADP: On the last night of our incredible volunteer experience at Pathfinder Academy in Kenya, the pre-teen girls we’d been working with for nearly a month surprised us by singing personal farewells at a candlelight dinner. We’d grown to love these little ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [1250]
After Sister Freda gave us a tour of her rural clinic, she led us past her own small house (one of the few I’d seen with running water and a western-style toilet) to one of most enchanting parts of her property: the tropical fruit grove.
Pushing past ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [1790] | Comments [2]
I found love at an unexpected place: Sister Freda’s Hospital outside of Kitale, Kenya. Sister Freda is a native Kenyan, mother of four and registered nurse. She constructed a clinic in this rural area to help the masses of displaced tribe members who ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [2041] | Comments [1]
When you’re an obvious stranger in a strange land, or in our case, a bustling pastoral community in Western Kenya, it’s bound to attract some attention – particularly if you’re of the paler skinned variety as we are. Every time we venture outside the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [1630] | Comments [1]
When the girls and I first began to discuss the itinerary for our year around the world, there were certain locations that each of us just had to visit and specific goals we felt compelled to achieve. For Amanda, it was perfecting her Spanish in Peru;... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
