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Category: Family

  • Elephants of Kadizora Camp

    5 Years Ago: Kadizora Camp

    Monwana Lodge at Thornybush was a great way to start our safari adventure. They had all of the big five African game animals, and we had closeup experiences with them all. That’s the benefit of a game reserve that’s relatively compact in size. The Okavango Delta, our next stop, is much more vast and open.…

  • Monwana Game Drive

    5 Years Ago: Monwana Lodge

    For a long time, my favorite fishing hat was a black ball cap with the California Republic bear on it that I bought at the Laguna Seca racetrack sometime in the mid-2000s. I’d forgotten to bring a hat to work, you see, so was forced to pay track-side concession prices to keep my pale bald…

  • Camps Bay

    Five Years Ago: Revisiting an African Adventure

    I realized the other day that five years has passed since Mom invited me to go with her on an African adventure. It was just about as amazing as you might imagine, just from those two words, “African adventure”. Back then, I posted photos to Instagram at the end of each day’s exploration, but Instagram…

  • A Mother’s Day Apart

    My Mom is pretty badass. She’s been through a lot over the years, and she’s still grinning. Hauling kids around the world when the US Navy moved us from place to place. Starting a software company in the 1980s and keeping it going and growing. She looked after my Grandmother as she battled cancer to…