Lake Manyara

Day 3 From our hotel we leave at 8 am to head for Lake Manyara National Park.  There is some interpersonal scuffle over how to keep our lunch food organized… Read more »

Tarangire Land

Day 2 Pat and I take melatonin to sleep but we awake at 5 am which gave us both 6.5 hours sleep.  Not enough to function completely normally but an… Read more »

Tanzania Travels

Tanzania with Family and Old Friends!    We have just arrived in Arusha, Tanzania, where the 12 of us will be for the next few weeks to learn about the… Read more »

Down to Kerala

Our flight from Mumbai to Cochin (called Kochi now) was a journey from a North Indian culture to that of the Karnatic South, from Hindi/Marathi to Malayalam language, from wheat… Read more »

Mumbai in May

The contrast between Japan and India could not be greater.   I left Osaka where organization, precision and cleanliness are at their highest level — and arrived into Mumbai where… Read more »