My roommate Julie laughed at me as I packed my bags in Nairobi. I was laughing at me too. "See this nice camera lens?" I held out ...

If you've read this blog for a while, you know that I have a minor hippo issue. Hippos don't like me. I don't know what I did to...

When I travel on my own dime (or shilling, in Kenya's case), I stay at the Parkside Hotel for about twenty dollars a night. Just a block...

"Tippa, darling, how do you stay so thin?" "Why, Marie, I drink milk, eat beef, and I like to jump. I also spear lions....

Wow, my blog sure has gotten popular since I mentioned lion porn. I've had hundreds of hits over the last few days, and not all from war...

"You missed lion sex," announced a passenger in the Gamewatchers Land Rover as our Land Cruiser pulled up alongside in Masai Mara...

Not actually kidnapped by giraffes, just no internet until Friday. Look for a pornographic lion story then.

Hm, so far my big trip has gone like this. -Two nights "sleeping" on airplanes. -No one at airport holding a sign with my name on ...

The first time I went to Nairobi, I was surprised at how many innovative scams I encountered. This time, the city has done an about-face. I ...

Last weekend, the eSwede visited me in Jersey City. The first time he'd visited a few weeks before, he'd had to push my car down Eig...