Travel

There is so much I am loving about this adventure. The work is fascinating, and I am meeting so many smart, intelligent, and committed people that it makes me very happy that I work with strategic knowledge and have the opportunity to work in a field as interesting as knowledge services. And watching people get …

As a long-time admirer of the writings of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen (I had read and learned to love Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass as a teenager), one of my first goals in coming to Kenya was to visit her home and learn as much as I could about her life in Kenya. …

The beauty and joy of this place keeps coming on for me, never better realized (so far) than the visit this morning to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to see the baby elephants having their daily introduction to visitors. Each morning for an hour, at 11:00, visitors are allowed to watch these orphaned animals interact …

Somehow “I had a job in Africa” does not have quite the ring of Karen Blixen’s “I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills….” But it must do. And today I was driven to Karen, to see the beautiful Ngong Hills. A suburb of Nairobi, Karen is named for Karen …