And I'm off!
Welcome to my attempt to keep you up to speed about my adventures in Africa this summer.
This will be short and sweet. And I'm not quite sure yet what it will contain! Or how often I will be able to give updates. Once I reach Tanzania, access will be near nonexistent.
I'm aiming to show warm snippets of my journey, which will look something like this, round trip:
New York-->South Africa-->Botswana-->Tanzania-->Kenya-->New York
I'll miss you! But so many wonders await and I'm so excited to be on my way.
From Rudyard Kipling's "The Explorer":
"There's no sense in going further --
it's the edge of cultivation,"
So they said, and I believed it --
broke my land and sowed my crop --
Built my barns and strung my fences
in the little border station
Tucked away below the foothills
where the trails run out and stop.
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience,
rang interminable changes
In one everlasting Whisper
day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden. Go and find it.
Go and look behind the Ranges --
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
it's the edge of cultivation,"
So they said, and I believed it --
broke my land and sowed my crop --
Built my barns and strung my fences
in the little border station
Tucked away below the foothills
where the trails run out and stop.
Till a voice, as bad as Conscience,
rang interminable changes
In one everlasting Whisper
day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden. Go and find it.
Go and look behind the Ranges --
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
See you soon.
Love from New York City.
