Crazy Sh!t We Didn’t Tell You About
You know about the gorillas. You know about how we fell in the giant gutter. You know that a girl we were trekking with almost died on the Perito Moreno glacier. You may even have caught the bit about how I ended up bloody after I got tripped by a puppy in Negril when we ...
Traveling Bookworms
I adore books. One of my favorite things in the whole world to do is to spend an afternoon in a bookshop, leafing through the pages and breathing in their smell. (Side note: this is why I find the rise of e-books to be so distressing. When was the last time anyone felt more relaxed ...
Attack of the Giant Monkey
Pierre: The day before we left Kigali for our gorilla trek, I joked around with Robin and asked her if I could write a blog post entitled “Giant Monkeys.” I thought it would be funny, since gorillas are obviously apes and not monkeys (for a post about Rwanda’s Golden Monkeys, click here). Now that we’ve ...
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Rwanda’s [Peaceful] Golden Monkeys
We booked our gorilla trek as part of a package deal, and reluctantly agreed to visit the Golden Monkeys the following day, otherwise known as the red-headed stepchild of Rwandan primates. We expected it to be pretty lame. It turns out that the monkey trek was quite a lot of fun, and the golden monkeys ...
Feels Like Déjà Vu, But Not Quite
When I found out that we’d be spending a bit of time in Tanzania, I called my old manager at SolidWorks Corporation and asked him if he wanted me to swing by Kigali. Quite a few years ago, the company had made a commitment to the government of Rwanda to help it build up its ...
A Week in the “Hotel Rwanda”
Think of Rwanda and almost inevitably, the first word to come to mind is a horrific one: genocide. Just seventeen years ago, the country experienced the systematic and brutal slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus over the course of approximately three months – while the rest of the world stood by and watched. In the ...