Africa

Day four of the safari started out with a very long drive. Well, it actually started out with a buffet breakfast at the Safari Club and me running down to the Animal Orphanage to make a donation because I hadn't brought my purse down there with me the previous afternoon.…

The third day of our Kenya safari was a traveling day. After a quick breakfast, we all packed our things and headed out to the vans. The monkeys obviously had the human schedules down pat, because we could see gangs of them traveling from room to room testing the windows…

Day two of the safari started out a little rough. The bed was ridiculously hard and I must have woken up a dozen times at night trying to get comfy - and I am normally not a light sleeper. I gave up at about 4:30 and just laid in bed…

We left Nairobi (thankfully) right after breakfast. Breakfast was a pleasant, buffet-style meal at the Stanley. We met up with a few other people traveling in our group who mentioned that the hotel security staff made them return to their rooms to leave behind all cameras and jewelery when they…

A safari is one of those exotic sounding vacation ideas that sounds like a wonderful fantasy trip to add to your bucket list, but that not many people take. This trip started with what sounded like a good deal on a safari pacakage from Costco Travel. Their travel department is…