#africa

This past November I was forced to contemplate this question of implied danger as I walked across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I have described this event in detail in some past entries, including descriptions of the massive and very obvious police presence all along the bridge. So, if there is no ...

My thoughts have again returned to my trip to Kenya in the fall of 1981, and of the highlights of that journey. There were a few other eventful incidents that come to mind, in addition to the two I described in the previous entry. One of these was fairly subtle, but again served to underscore&hel...

It was late in the afternoon and the shadows were growing long when we finally pulled up to the hotel for the evening. My mom, grandmother and I got out of the van, along with the half dozen other tourists who were our traveling companions for the trip. Everyone headed for the front desk to…