Dave Ford Does Earth

Posted by Dave Ford

Not surprisingly, the internet cafes in Arusha–our hub city in Tanzania– leave a bit to be desired. Nonetheless, marvelous Marvin and I hit the ground in Africa last night after 24 hours on the move through such beautiful cities as Detroit and Amsterdam.

On the first leg of the trip I sat next to a guy that must have been 6 ft 8 and 275 pounds and wore a full sweat suit. He took up at least 27% of my useable seat space in addition to his own.  Aside from that and the extremely crappy airline food, the flights were great.

We spent a good part of today–our first day on the ground in Africa– meeting with 5 different Safari companies and attempting to get money out of the ATM’s here unsuccessfully.

Sidenote: Be sure to tell Bank of America next time you are traveling to Africa BEFORE you leave the country.

 Tomorrow we leave for the first of 6 days on Safari. We are hitting 5 national parks inclding the Ngorogoro crater and the Serengeti. We are both very pumped but the jetleg is starting to set in.

 Apparently the Wildebeest are calving at this time of the year. To protect the young from predators the entire herd comes together in one giant formation. Knock on wood, but we think there is a good possibility that we will be see a few dramatic, National Geographicesk ”hunts”.

Chances are also fairly good that we will see the big 5: Elephants, Black Rhino, Leopard, Lions, and Giraffes (Did I mention that Marvin has a thing for Giraffes).

NOTES:  

> Chances of me uploading photos are slim.

> The “U” key of this keyboard completely sucks and I hate it. Who knew how often you se the letter U!

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