Travel

As I am about to leave for a while, I thought it might be fun to have a few final shots of the neighborhood where I live – or, in this case, where I walk each day.I am about to go away on business for six weeks or so (or, as they say at the …

And then there’s the scenery. As I noted last time, describing a safari to this magnificent park can’t be done in just one post, so please forgive this “extra” posting. Just wanted to be sure this splendid place was given its due. Being a dormant volcano, the rocks are spectacular, and the obsidian rock – …

Perhaps I give the impression that I spend all my time in Kenya going on safari but the tardiness of this post will clarify that. I am in Nairobi to work, and despite the pleasures of the occasional safari or other excursion (usually on week-ends), I do have a job to go to. So the …

A recent Sunday excursion took a group of friends to the Maasai Ostrich Farm, now a rather swell resort, part of the Merica Group. [Yes, you read that name correctly – it’s a hotel chain in Kenya (I stayed at the Merica Hotel in Nakuru not long ago) but every time I see it I …

I commented a little about Village Market the other day, and had planned to follow up with some description and a few photos, but….As it happened, I did get to take a couple of photographs, but that was before I was seen by one of the guards. He very politely told me that photography isn’t …