February Excursion

One of my goals this year is to take advantage of my flexible schedule and the fact that I live in Kenya.  Every month I am being intentional about doing one major excursion.  These excursions are my time for adventure, and may also be the key to my personal sustainability.  February’s was easy. I went with The 1010 Project’s service learning team to the Masai Mara on a Safari.  Normally these trips will not be associated with 1010 or “work,” but for the Safari I made an exception.

After a few hours on a paved road our driver left the “hardball” and started down a dirt path. Passing pastoralists, small villages, & vast panoramic views we drove towards the National Park & our camp. We arrived in the early afternoon at a surprisingly comfortable lodge or “Safari Camp.”  We cleaned up and rested while we waited for the afternoon rain to clear up. Refreshed from the trip & anxious to see lions, we took off on our first game drive. 3 kilometers into our “hunt” we came to an impromptu river that the rain had formed. It was too wide to through a rock across (yes I tried, its what Marines do when they’re bored), and waist deep (no I didn’t try, I let someone else be the measuring stick.) We returned to camp a bit defeated. Mara = 1 Keith = 0

The next two days brought us great weather, unbelievable scenery, and a lot of lions! It was unbelievable. We drove around the savannah hunting for one animal or another: Lions, Malibu, hyenas, hippos, elephants, zebras, buffalo, monkeys, dik dik, birds, birds, and more birds…

The trip, the exploration, the bit of adventure... ...it was just what I needed.

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