“Hear the drums echoing tonight But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation She’s comin’ in, 12:30 flight Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation I stopped an old man along the way Hopin’ to find some old forgotten words…

We encounter a tree full of Speke’s Weavers – a very interesting songbird of East Africa.

Doug reflects on a beautiful sunset on the Maasai Mara of Kenya

We find an African rock python coiled in the acacia tree under which we are having a picnic.

Bird fans! Before our Africa trip disappears into the rearview mirror, I wanted to include some posts of our feathered friends. Yes, we went to Africa to see the elephants, hippos, giraffes and other exotic mammals but the wide variety of bird life proved to…

In April 2018, the King of Swaziland decided to change the name of his country to Eswatini. The new name, eSwatini, means “land of the Swazis”… Wait, isn’t that what Swaziland means? The change was unexpected, but King Mswati has been referring to Swaziland for…