Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Bark louder, little dog.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Let’s finish the job.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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After our side trip to Maasi Mara (described in a previous OTR), we flew back to Nairobi where we met the guide and the fellow trekkers.  This series of eight OTR submissions is organized more or less chronologically rather than by theme.

The photos are mainly of landscapes and the bushmen rather than wildlife. In part, because we rarely stopped to photograph animals. And in part, because the landscapes were so vast, with volcanic cones in the distance that we’d approach over the following days. Even so, the spotters were amazing. Apparently they don’t find animals by looking for movement—rather by looking for something unexpected, out of place… Also Washii always knew which of the anastomosing elephant tracks to follow through the bush.

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MAJI YA CHUMVI 2 MAN-EATERS CAMP.

Another unusual tree, this one—if I remember correctly—with puffy bird nests hanging from the branches.  (We saw prints of African Hunting Dogs on our morning hike.)

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RIDGE.

Long day as we hiked most of the day (15.2 miles).  Every so often we’d climb up a ridge for a panoramic view…  Here we’re on a narrow linear ridge.

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VISTA.

Another ‘interesting’ tree, this one with a termite mound at its base.

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HIKE.

Same type of very cool tree…

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REST STOP.

Our rest stops were mainly intended to give the crew a chance to refresh their hyper alertness.  Here, Lajori is scouting for animals while his brother, Washii, is watching the guide’s pack.

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TSAVO RIVER.

We made 18 river crossings during our 10-day trek.  We’d cross the river wearing ‘water shoes’ with our boots around our necks (where it was not this shallow, rather knee to thigh deep).  Can I mention that crocodiles & hippos lived in the river, so we needed to cross bunched together so as to mimic an elephant…

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OUR GUIDE.

Our guide’s Scottish family immigrated to Kenya when he was a child, pre-independence.  He began organized walking safaris in Tsavo shortly after big game hunting was banned (although poaching has continued).  (His first walking safari is chronicled in The Shadow of Kilimanjaro written by Rick Ridgeway.)

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EARLY MORNING VISTA.

We did see lots of animals as we moved through their landscape, but rarely stopped to take photos.  In fact, this day we ran from a bull elephant—scrambling up a rocky outcrop…  Older elephants in Tsavo all know of a family member or friend who was killed by poachers.  So humans are not looked upon kindly.  We also ran from a charging mother hippo who fortunately turned around for her baby…

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    eclare

    @way2blue:   We took a boat ride on Lake Naivasha in Kenya, and I shivered when I saw the hippo eyes just peeking out above the water, looking at us.  Many hippo eyes.

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    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    The “puffy bird nests” are weaver bird nests.  Each species of weaver weaves a slightly different style of nest (and there are lots of different kinds of weavers!)

    Thanks for the memories.

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    StringOnAStick

    @lashonharangue: Agree that it’s a baobab tree.  The wide trunk and shape is distinctive, and this isn’t a big one; the huge ones are the sort of thing you expect in sci fi.

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