Author: Nancy

Leaving Tupper Lake mid afternoon, we planned to drive two hours due east to our inn in West Dover, Vermont.  Midway, we stopped for gas near Glenn Falls, New York and heard the familiar beep of emails loading as we entered an area with data reception.  Perusing messages while my husband pumped gas, I opened an…

Started the day with another amazing breakfast at Trail’s End B&B – today’s menu was Belgian pecan waffles, fruit, cherry scones and turkey bacon savored to the accompaniment of Billie Holiday’s expressive vocals playing over the breakfast room’s state of the art sound system. Fueled with plenty of carbs and a baggie of the freshly…

After an energizing hike to Owl Lookout, we drove towards the nearby village of Lake Placid, planning to explore and have dinner. A couple miles out of town, we saw the tower of a multi-storied ski jump, looming above the trees. Part of the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex, this jump and its slightly shorter sibling…

Marooned at home by hip surgery and the pandemic, I yearned for a change of scenery; to get away from the neatly manicured lawns and well-tended flowerbeds of suburbia and into the great outdoors. I was four weeks post surgery, able to walk comfortably and my birthday was coming up, so we started making plans. …

Between the shelter at home restrictions and hip surgery, I was confined to my house and back deck for weeks and desperately needed a change of scenery. So one hot, sunny Saturday afternoon in August, we packed a picnic and drove to Port Huron to enjoy the waterfront and watch the freighters on the St….

On the last day of our trip, we hired a local guide to take us game viewing in the nearby national game park – Hluhluwe-Imfolozi.  This 240,000 acre park established in 1895 is the oldest game preserve in Africa. Recognized for its conservation efforts, it has the largest population of white rhinos in the world. …

We went on every game drive available during our time at Zulu Nyala – typically one in the morning and another in the afternoon. By the end of the week, some of our safari companions skipped excursions since after multiple game drives, we’d explored the entire 4500 acres of the Zulu Nyala preserve. But, that…

You can’t help but be enchanted by the ‘cuteness’ of baby wildlife. An advantage of safariing in South Africa in early March before the cooler, drier winter begins is seeing the little ones that were born during the prior wet season. Everywhere we turned, we saw babies – nyala, buffalo, wildebeest, monkey, lion, warthog, zebra…

Fifty miles east of Zulu Nyala on the coastline of KwaZulu-Natal, is South Africa’s largest wetland conservation area. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park protects just under a million acres of a diverse natural ecosystem that includes sandy beaches, subtropical dune forests, savannas and wetlands. Rich in biodiversity, the…

Since the Zulu Nyala reserve was too small for lions, Mark arranged an excursion to another larger game park for us to hopefully view these magnificent cats.  So late one afternoon, midway into our trip, eight of our ten safari companions (the ‘kids’ declined), piled into a van for the half hour drive to Manyoni…