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Everyone I come in contact with in Tanzania speaks English along with Swahili as well as their tribal language be it Maasi, Meru, Chagga or the myriad of other tribes that live in Tanzania.  However, in all my travels around the world I have made it a point to at least learn to say “hello”, […]

This weekend I was in New York to attend the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. It is a beautiful event held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel and about 800 people attend from all over the world. This year’s theme was “The Mayan Prophecy: Fact or Fiction?” We listened as some of the world’s best minds interpreted […]

One of the most important and challenging skills to develop in kayaking is what is called an Eskimo Roll. This is a maneuver to rescue yourself when you capsize.  The name Eskimo Roll comes from the legend that when Eskimos went out to hunt seals, walruses and other animals by kayak they had themselves sewn […]

Would you like an opportunity to capture amazing wildlife and landscape images in Africa?  Would you like a chance to get that great mantel shot!  Now you can. Infinite Safari Adventures has teamed up with Jansen Photo Expeditions to offer you a Tanzanian Photographic Odyssey.  For over 20 years, Mark Jansen, with his wife Holly, […]

The other night I had the honor of speaking at the Valley Wide Kayak Club in Hemet (www.valleywidekayakclub.org). It was a great night with an enthusiastic crowd. Many thanks to Tom Siebold for organizing this (and dinner). It is nice to go speak about paddling in Africa but even nicer when you meet wonderful people […]

We read a lot about conservation efforts to protect Elephants and their ivory and endangered cheetahs.  These efforts are very worthwhile and should be supported.  But did you also know in the last 50 years the African lion population has declined from 450,000 to about 20,000?  Hunting, loss of habitat and retaliatory killing by cattle […]

As many of you know I have a business partner, Steve Chumbley, who resides in Tanzanian with his lovely wife Teena Payne and their ever entertaining son young Aidan (he will be happy to take you on a rocket ship safari). Steve and Teena have been in the safari business for over a dozen years […]

There are many types of game drives but the other night when my wife and I took a well deserved break, we discovered one that offers an interesting twist to the experience of a game drive. While we were at a movie theater, we found a small arcade of video games. Nothing unusual, right? But […]