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Learning to Love Adventure Travel

Friday, 15 January 2010 02:04 Dena Braun

I’ve always loved travel. It started when my parents took me on my first big vacation to Disney World when I was five. Throughout the years my parents and I would go on an annual trip--Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, the Caribbean—I had seen them all by the time I was 19. But it wasn’t until a trip to Colorado that I realized on all those trips, I was just a tourist. I saw the requisite sites you MUST see in each place, but it was like being a spectator at a tennis match as opposed to a player.

An African Adventure Part I - Big Game at Kings Pool

Friday, 15 January 2010 01:56 John T. Braun

Giraffe, lions, elephants, leopards, dung beetles, pythons, impalas, and hippos. This is the short list of things that we saw at King’s Pool in Botswana. No, not in a city zoo, but rather from Land Rover, sometimes at a range of only a few feet.

An African Adventure Part III - The Desert of Damaraland

Friday, 15 January 2010 01:54 John T. Braun

Deserts. Hot, dry, barren. That’s exactly what I see on the descent to the airstrip where we’ll be met by a representative from Wilderness Safaris Damaraland. The temperature in the airplane was fine, but damn, the blowing dust below just screamed “scorcher“. Imagine my surprise when the door opened, and a cool breeze met us! Wow, this place just got so much better!

An African Adventure Part 2 - Tracking Animals at Vumbra

Friday, 15 January 2010 01:55 John T. Braun

The difference between Vumbra and our first camp, King’s Pool was immediately apparent. Whereas King’s pool was full of low trees and shrubs, Vumbra had a lot of open plains. King’s pool was close to a river, but opposite the camp from that river, the landscape was very dry. Vumbra is essentially on a wetland. Animals seemed to keep with their own around King’s Pool, where we saw a lot of mixed herds and areas that had a number of different animals in attendance.

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Mr and Mrs B Go To The Durango Wine Fest

Friday, 15 January 2010 01:07 Dena Braun

A little background is necessary to fully appreciate what you are about to read. It’s not easy to say, so the best thing here might just be to come straight out with it…John has never had a drink. Ever.

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