Beans for Breakfast

I couldn’t let it go. It’s been bugging me for years and I had to find out. I realize that I am not technically traveling right now, but this post is related to traveling, so I am going to write it. Think of it as a public service. Since the first time we set foot…

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Dazzled, Bloated, and Crashed

  The Aquila Private Game Reserve has a nice dazzle of zebras. They also have a pride of lions, a herd of water buffaloes, a bloat of hippopotami, and a crash of rhinos, among other types of wildlife. I started down the rabbit hole of the genesis of assigning groups of animals their collective nouns,…

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The Lunar Landscape and Weird Welwitschia

The Welwitschia has been called many names and not all of them sound complimentary. Some call it “bizarre” and some call it a “living fossil.” Wait! Here’s a good one. I saw a book entitled, “Welwitschia: Paradox of a Parched Paradise.” Not sure “paradise” is the first word that comes to mind in the Namib…

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