Slacking!

     Well actually I am only slacking on the whole posting 'past trips on the blog thing'. 

     Truthfully I have been very busy trying to get this summer's trip planned.  It's hard to keep up when you go from planning a few weeks in Colombia to scrapping it and looking into spending two months in Madagascar. 

      You research your flight and find you have a layover in Kenya and look into what you can do there for a couple days. You quickly realize that a few days in Kenya is not enough. Now, all of a sudden you are spending a few weeks in Kenya and making sure you get to see Kilimanjaro from a distance. But after further study you are all of a sudden heading to Tanzania and climbing Kilimanjaro (is there a bar at the top?). So now you are looking at a month in Madagascar and a month in Tanzania and Kenya. 

     Finally you are relieved because you consider the trip planned. You have the guide books and you've done the research. Your timetable is loose but you know what you want to see... Enter 'Political Coups' and all of a sudden the country that made you want to forego Colombia, and spawned the desire to go to Kenya and Tanzania is in the "Avoid all non-essential travel" column of the Canadian Travel Advisory Board......Awesome......*side-note* Please look at 

http://www.marojejy.com/Crise_e.htm to see the tragic affect this is having on the wilderness of Madagascar, a place that is home to so many endangered species and is considered to have the most unique wildlife in all the world.  

     The latest news is that they are heading towards a civil war, which is a war that the already threatened wildlife won't be able to endure. This is only my opinion and I have only the reports I have read to back it up, but when you have read enough stories of endangered species being captured and sold on the global market you get upset enough to post it (even if it's only read by a few of your friends and family).

Wow. Who went off track???? 

And now I'm back on that good old track. 

We fly in and out of Nairobi and have two months in between. 

I can't promise anyone that if the opportunity to go to Madagascar comes up I won't go, but the general plan is Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda (Colombia got lost in the shuffle) .