Ok, it's been forever and a day but I'm FINALLY travelling again. This time I'm off to Africa, Nairobi Kenya to be exact, with my girlfriend Annie. She's going to be in a wedding and I'm along to eat and drink all the strange things I can. They won't have kava (I've checked), but there is sure to be all kinds of different things we don't have over here. I've purposefully NOT done a ton of research for this trip just to be more surprised and inspired.

My travel gear has changed very little since the last time I was overseas. Still going with a decent sized backpack and a day pack, nothing fancy. I purposefully don't take fancy gizmos and gadgets when I go places. Ok, so that's kind of a lie. I'm bringing my iPhone but ONLY because it can be useful in case I really REALLY need to make a phone call. It can also store movies. But no fancy camera, no GPS, no laptop. But same battery charger, new camera that runs on AA batteries, same ancient Nalgene, same toiletry kit.

Let's go find some zebras . . . and eat them.