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Into Africa

I’m planning to do a few blog posts about our Kenya trip, and this is the first one, briefly covering getting from the US to Kenya. We haven’t actually seen any wildlife yet (unless you count a few monkeys along the road from Nairobi airport to our lodging

A day in Nairobi

A day in Nairobi

Today we took a driving tour of Nairobi, including the Karen Blixen Museum and a stop at a shopping mall to get a few things. After the museum, we drove to the Kobe Tough bead and leather facility, where we were greeted with some singing and dancing, then watched demonstrations

Meeting the Maasai

Meeting the Maasai

Today felt like the longest day of our trip so far, even more exhausting than the 24 hour travel day from Virginia to Nairobi. So I'll be kind of brief with the words here, but will include many photos. We checked in, had lunch, and then headed out

Safari day in Masai Mara

Safari day in Masai Mara

Saturday was our only full-day safari of this trip. The other safaris we have planned will be no more than a few hours at a time, but this time we needed to go a long distance to where we could see lions and cheetahs, so we brought box lunches and

Lions and leopards on spa day

Lions and leopards on spa day

Today we went on a safari from 7:00 to 1:00, then we spent the rest of the day at the hotel. This was our first afternoon/evening with no plans, a chance to recharge before we fly to Amboseli National Park tomorrow, and we spent it at the

Arriving in Amboseli

Arriving in Amboseli

Today was about getting from Masai Mara National Reserve, where we've spent the last three nights, to Amboseli National Park, where we'll spend the next two nights. Our guide Willie had driven to Nairobi with most of our luggage yesterday afternoon, and he was on the

Elephants of Amboseli

Elephants of Amboseli

Yesterday we went on three different safari outings – sunrise, mid-day, and after dark – and we saw hundreds of elephants. Amboseli has 2500+ elephants in a relatively small area, and around every corner you'll see some. It's often a group of ten or twenty, and sometimes a

Safaris dawn to dusk

Safaris dawn to dusk

Tuesday was a long day. We left on our first safari at 6:00 in the morning, came back for a late breakfast, then went out again at 10:00, then relaxed at the hotel in the afternoon, then went out for an after-dark safari after 7PM, followed by a

Travel to Tsavo

Travel to Tsavo

Wednesday was mostly a travel day, to get from Ambroseli National Park to Tsavo West National Park. The distance was only about 60 miles, but much of it was on very rough roads, and we stopped at a Masaai village and a Masaai school, so the journey took several hours.

King of the Jungle

King of the Jungle

After arriving at Tsavo West National Park on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday was our one full day there before starting for home on Friday. We went on safaris in the morning and afternoon, and also spent several hours sitting on the deck of that bar/restaurant, where we could watch the

Heading for Home

Heading for Home

The final day of our trip was a long one: two days long, to be exact. It was a little over 48 hours from when we woke in in West Tsavo National Park until we went to bed at home in Butte, Montana, including 43 hours of travel time from

Kenya trip wrap-up

Kenya trip wrap-up

This blog post covers some final thoughts on our trip to Kenya: things we learned, what we liked, what we might do differently if we did it again, and so on. These are just my own thoughts, and I'm no expert, having only been to Kenya twice and

Walking the Moors

Walking the Moors

This is a post that originally appeared on my old website in August 2014. It's one of the posts that was too large or complicated to be migrated to my new blog platform in 2018, and I'm steadily (well, erratically) migrating those old posts manually so

Jamie's Highway

Jamie's Highway

When people ask where I'm from, I sometimes answer "I-90," because I've lived my entire life within a few miles of I-90 in Washington, Illinois, and Montana. So it's no surprise that I-90 has played a big role in the lives of

Isaac's 2023 road trip

Isaac's 2023 road trip

In the fall of 2023, Isaac and I took a road trip from Butte to visit some friends and family and woodworking shops in the Midwest. Isaac had previously traveled to a few Western states – Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California – but this was his first experience of

Monument Valley 2020

Monument Valley 2020

In January 2020, we visited Monument Valley. We flew from Seattle to Phoenix, then drove a rental car up to Monument Valley for two nights at the View Hotel, then we drove to Santa Fe for two nights of relaxing before flying out of Albuquerque back to Seattle. I took

London, Ireland, Madrid & Nice

London, Ireland, Madrid & Nice

We've never taken a full 3-week vacation before. This could get addictive! This post includes a few favorite photos from our trip. We flew from Seattle to London, where we spent the night of our 13th wedding anniversary in a hotel with a spectacular view of Tower Bridge.

Lake Of The Woods, Oregon

Lake Of The Woods, Oregon

We've traveled a lot with our dogs. They've been in our truck for most of its 230,000 miles over the last 8 years, visiting 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces and territories. And I think this may be their favorite spot they've ever

Antarctica

In December of 2018, Mom and I took a cruise to Antarctica [https://www.quarkexpeditions.com/en/antarctic/expeditions/antarctic-explorer-discovering-the-7th-continent] on the Ocean Endeavor from Quark Expeditions, thus checking the 7th continent off our life list for each of us. Special thanks to my cousin David Phillips, who sponsored Mom&

Havana, Cuba

Photos from our family cruise to Havana, Cuba. It was a short 5-day trip out of Tampa on Carnival, with only 24 hours in Havana, but we made the most of it! wearing our matching Arnold Family Reunion t-shirts, ready to head out to sea after a day at sea,

An Open XML Memoir

An Open XML Memoir

Working on the Open XML campaign was an amazing experience. I joined Microsoft in late 2005, thinking I was going to work as a SharePoint technical evangelist, but in my first month I found myself thrust into a role I never knew existed before, which had nothing to do with