Hi dear Readers! Sorry I dropped off the Internet for the last few months. Since the PCT, Richard flew off to Antarctica, I worked at Sweetland Farm, freelanced for the Valley News and enjoyed New Hampshire. Now, it’s my turn to fly to Antarctica. I leave the states tomorrow and should get to the ice […]
In college, I was a member of the OSU Mountaineers Club. We organized and led trips for rock climbing, backpacking, ice climbing, sky diving or whatever people were into or wanted to try. It was the first time I really found my community at Ohio State and I met some truly wonderful people there. At […]
Almost a year ago, Richard and I, and our friend Dan, hiked from the south rim of the Grand Canyon to the north rim and back. The hike was awesome. And very painful. We left camp at 5 a.m. and walked 3 miles to the trailhead. The trail we went down is called South Kaibab […]
Our finals days in Tanzania were spent in the Serengeti National Park. This beautiful space has been fully preserved since 1951 (and partially so in earlier efforts by the British government). The park is so special because it, and surrounding protected game areas, are home to the 1.2 million wildebeest who migrate annually through it. […]
Here are a few more photos from Tanzania:
The Ngorongoro Crater is “the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera,” according to the journal Biological Conservation. The crater was created when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two or three million years ago. I recently visited Volcanoes National Park in Hawai’i and it’s hard to imagine a spewing, roiling crater […]
I wake on Tuesday morning early. Like 4:30 a.m. That’s too early to try to get up, so I listen to old episodes of the podcast “Too Beautiful to Live,” and wait for my alarm to go off. The group is meeting at 7 a.m. to go on a morning safari in Lake Manyara National […]
Our arrival, and my first impressions of Tanzania, were hazy with fatigue, but the excitement of being in a new country (and continent) kept me awake through it all. We were met at the Kilomanjaro International Airport by our guide, David Bygott, a wonderful gentleman with decades of experience in and love for Tanzania. Unfortunately, […]
I am leaving for Tanzania tomorrow. I am very excited for the 10-day tour and the glimpse it will provide into the culture of this unique place. In preparation for my trip, I was prescribed a malaria prophylaxis to be taken two weeks prior to departure, throughout our travels and for a few weeks after. While […]