Tag Archives: travel
London
This is being written mostly on my laptop at home in Calgary. It is a bit more wordy than my other posts from this trip, in reaction to the struggle of writing on a 15 year old tablet that I … Continue reading
East Africa Birds – 1
For seven weeks Rich King and I visited Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, largely in search of birds. Rich is a casual bird lister, I try to be a bird photographer. I hesitate to give either of us these labels … Continue reading
Ethiopia
We are now home from our seven week four country Africa trip Our Ethiopian venture began February 10th with our flight from Dar Es Salaam. We were picked up by Tefera Alemu who had put together Rich’s trip before Covid … Continue reading
Tanzania
We arrived in Tanzania on Feb 1, settling in for two nights in a hotel in Arusha. Arusha is the centre of tours into the northern highlands, where most of the animal parks are situated. Rich has visited this part … Continue reading
Kenya
I saw a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. Actually I have seen many farms so far on my trip to Africa, even some in the Ngong Hills as we passed through on the way to … Continue reading
Birding in Uganda
The first part of this note was sent off as an email Jan 17 after 8 days of travel. I include it now to simply keep my notes together. The remaining days of our two weeks in Uganda with Mamaland … Continue reading
East Africa
Once again I have neglected this blog. It is almost two years since my birding/biking trip to Japan/ Taiwan and my last entries. Although my travels are getting less adventurous I am still getting around. In the last two years … Continue reading