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 [...]

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. [...]