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The trip into the Sahara was more dangerous and life threatening than our other trips. However, it would not have been possible without our self- contained VW Camper. Seeing the unique wildlife in th …

An Audience with an Elephant is a compendium of the oddest and most eccentric travels – a travel book to set alongside Norman Lewis and Eric Newby for the sheer unpredictability of its encounters and …

Ann von Lossberg and boyfriend Jim Hudock stand at the dock at Baltimore harbor and wave goodbye to their screaming-red VW bus en route to England–just about the most beautiful magic carpet Ive ever …

AFRICA’S TOP WILDLIFE COUNTRIES highlights and compares wildlife reserves and other major attractions in the continent’s best countries for game viewing making the planning of the journey of a lifeti …

Years ago, I met a friend in London I had not seen in many years. He posed a very interesting question to me. He wanted me to give him a statement on Jomo Kenyatta, who was then incarcerated as the l …

In March 2014, I came across a professional development grant offered by the University of California, Riverside. I had just been hired to teach West African dance in the Department of Dance as a phy …

Johanna Maula was only eight years old when her familymother, father, and four small girlsmoved from the snow-covered Finnish countryside to middle of the tropical heat of Nigeria. The Biafran war wa …

Lisa traveled to Uganda with her teenage son on a twelve-day mission trip. In an orphanage her world view abruptly changed as she held a shivering emaciated little boy who lay dying of malaria. He ha …

In 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that f …