I just read Katherine Lonsdorf's recent contribution to World Hum and feel obligated to share her story with others. All women who travel should really take the time to read and reflect on this one. One of the lines that I relate to and echo, full-heartedly: I strongly believed, and still do, that the only [...]
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No smelling the roses
This whole volcano debacle is doing more than screwing up European holidays. It's jeopardizing jobs as far away as Kenya. Kenya exports millions of dollars of agriculture to Europe each day ranging from tea to flowers.
Well kids, when I climbed Kilimanjaro there was still a glacier at the top.
I hope that's a sentence I never have to utter. When I saw James Balog on Tuesday (see post below) he predicted this whole volcano in Iceland thing and theorized that it's all a result of climate change and the rapid melting of glaciers. It's just had me thinking a lot about all of this [...]
National Geographic Live with James Balog
Just heard Balog speak about the Extreme Ice Survey and found it all very compelling. I hate how climate change is a political issue - it's counterproductive. Urgh (frustrated sigh.) Go plant a tree.
Sensory Overload
This morning Racine Avenue in Chicago transformed, for just a moment, to Ngong Road in Nairobi. Hurrying to get to work, I walked blindly into a cloud of diesil fumes left by a passing bus. The suffocating smell of polluted air caused me to think, just for a moment, that I was actually in Kenya. [...]
A PSA for DWRG
(I feel a bit unoriginal for referencing another World Hum piece to aid in my static writer's block, but until my next adventure, I seem to be living vicariously through the adventures of others.) In Eric Weiner's recent contribution to the award winning travel blog World Hum (is that something brown on my nose?) he [...]
Githeri and Kilimanjaro? Yes Please!
Sunday was a special day. The sun was shining (for an hour longer, too), the broom was sweeping (sun inspired spring cleaning) and the beans were boiling (more on this one later). All of this in preparation for a screening of the MTV documentary Summit on the Summit, a Kilimanjaro trek organized by musician, Kenna, [...]
Place Dropper? Guilty.
I love the World Hum blog. (And I'm not just saying that because I hope to one day be featured on their award winning site.) The pieces speak to real, gritty, Therouxian travelers - the kind of globetrotter I hope to be one day. Earlier I came across a brilliant and hysterical piece by Spud [...]
Jenn Winter 