File under “if I had a backyard”: Upgrading the Big Green Egg… #
Part I Booking passage on a container ship should have entailed 28 days without internet. But on a whim I looked into satellite phones and discovered that I could rent a “satellite modem” to access the internet anywhere in the…
The first stop on our overland expedition was Lake Nakuru National Park, 160km northwest of Nairobi. According to the standard itinerary we should have stopped earlier, at Lake Naivasha, to visit Hells Gate National Park, but our mountain gorilla trekking…
One of the highlights of our safari at Lake Nakuru was getting out of the matatus near the shore to experience a “flamboyance” of flamingos up close—or as close as they’d let us get. Flamingos are strange creatures. Contrary to…
Not far from the flamingos, we stumbled upon a family of white rhinos near the shore of Lake Nakuru—our first rhinoceros sighting on the trip (or ever). They didn’t seem very disturbed by our presence, so we were able to…
In the absence of any signage on the high seas, I captured our first equator crossing in the form of a GPS reading aboard the Cap Cleveland. Since then, we’ve crossed the equator only twice on our adventure, both times…
We spent a night at an overland campground in Turbo, Kenya, outside of Eldoret. The next morning we crossed the border into Uganda (and later the Nile) as we made our way to Kampala, the capital. We spent two nights…
The alarm went off at 4:40 so we’d be up in time for breakfast. At 6 we loaded ourselves into two 4×4s for the 45 minute drive to Volcanoes National Park, where we met up with the other 50-60 people…
After our long day with the mountain gorillas, we had a free day in Musanze, so a group of us went to see Lake Kivu, which forms the border between Rwanda and the Congo. It’s a limnically active lake, which…
Though I found cooking classes pretty much everywhere I looked in Southeast Asia (e.g. Bali, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand), I discovered in India that they tended to cluster around a few tourist-friendly cities (like Udaipur and McLeod Ganj). When…
File under “if I had a backyard”: Upgrading the Big Green Egg… #
Terrie dispatches two goats: Of Blood and Earth #
My own mom featured on her company’s blog: 3 for Me: Kathy Watt #
Must have: Lego Maersk Container Ship Set #
For more East African animal goodness, check out photographer Nick Brandt #
Chuckle: Annoying.js #
Neato: Mapnificent: Shows you areas you can reach with public transport in a given time. #
An elevated perspective on African wildlife: George Steinmetz’s African Portfolio
I love this excerpt from the About Flying section:
The whole thing packs up into three bags weighing less than 72 lbs (32 kg.) which is the limit for standard baggage on most commercial aircraft. Thus I enter most countries without significant problems from customs or aviation authorities. I don’t need an airfield for take off or landing, only a clear area a little larger than a basketball court.
I’m a few months behind on pop culture, besides what filtered through on our travels. Just heard Adele’s Rolling in the Deep for the first time today. Wow.
Also, am I wrong for finding LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem (song and video) totally catchy? #
Oh Internet! Antoine Dodson performs at the 15th Annual Webbys
Love the lead on Wikipedia:
I wonder if this will affect their “world’s most livable” ranking: Cars set on fire in Vancouver following loss #
The Dutch Mint is about to release a commemorative, silver-plated, €5 coin. But get this: they feature a QR code on the reverse. Let’s hope they don’t all accidentally point to justinsomnia.org. (I’d almost consider picking one up—for the sheer novelty of it.) #
A fair-use conflict with an unhappy ending: Andy Baio gets Kind of Screwed (for a story with a happier ending, check out my own A Response to Liberty)
Update: The Online Photographer chimes in (as I hoped he would): Kind of Blue, Kind of Bloop, Kind of Screwed #
Neato: The Pentax Q System (with “Toy” lenses!) #