Karibu (welcome) to thoughts and images from cultural expeditions with Susan Olofson Travel.
January 2013
What’s it like to be on safari in Africa? Well, of course it’s wildlife—a recent traveler recently said “it’s like Animal Planet to the fifth power”. We’d been watching storks and vultures vie for position and power over a wildebeest carcass presenting them with a feast, beating huge wings at each other to get to the choice morsels...
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January 2012
What’s it like to be on safari in Africa? Well, of course it’s wildlife—a recent traveler recently said “it’s like Animal Planet to the fifth power”. We’d been watching storks and vultures vie for position and power over a wildebeest carcass presenting them with a feast, beating huge wings at each other to get to the choice morsels...
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July 2011
Although Spring is the natural time for budding of new life and fresh growth, I also feel a sense of renewal at the beginning of each new year. The old datebook and fridge calendar are swapped out for fresh blank pages, waiting to be filled with new plans...
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January 2011
Although Spring is the natural time for budding of new life and fresh growth, I also feel a sense of renewal at the beginning of each new year. The old datebook and fridge calendar are swapped out for fresh blank pages, waiting to be filled with new plans...
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November 2010
It takes just one zebra to twitch at the river’s edge, which turns into a step, then a leap, then a hard swim across the crocodile-infested waters of the Mara or Talek river. Then thousands of his wildebeest buddies congregated on the banks bound into the river to join in the Great Migration river crossing...
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July 2010
Vervet monkeys laughing at me from the thorn trees, bush babies’ bulging eyes overlooking our outdoor dining table, dik dik bounding away in a seeming constant state of panic…just another day at the office when you’re working from a Maasai manyatta in Kenya...
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