Driving the Pan American Highway
Well we are off! The television show Saturday Night Live has a saying, “We go on, not because we are ready, but because it’s 11:30.” We left for our trip […]
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Mark Melton is an attorney, entrepreneur and investor based in Santa Barbara, California.
Something Sphynx & A Day at the Museum – Cairo Days 2 & 3
Our second and third days in Cairo we went to the Egyptian Museum and to the Giza Plateau to see the Great Pyramids and the Sphynx. Here’s a view of […]
Cairo Day 1 – Our “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Experience
Day 1 – Monday Feb. 22, 2016 For our time in Cairo, we hired Tamer Mina to be our driver and guide. Tamer had met us at the airport the […]
Serengeti Game Drive
January 21, 2015 After the dawn balloon ride, we spent the rest of the day driving the Serengeti in our Defender looking for animals and taking their pictures. It was […]
Serengeti Balloon Safari
January 21, 2015 Up before dawn we waited in the dark at our campground looking for the headlights of the car from the Serengeti Balloon Safari to pick our group […]
Goodbye Kenya/Hello Tanzania – Lake Victoria & the Serengeti, day 1
Sunday, January 18, 2015 On Sunday, January 18, 2015 our group packed up our campsites at Kembu Farm in Nakuru, Kenya and drove our Land Rover Defenders to Kericho, Kenya. […]
Flamingos, Gazelles, Impala & much more – A Lake Nukuru, Kenya Game Drive
After leaving Lake Naivasha on Friday January 16th, we drove to Kembu Farm Camp at Njoro, Nakuru Kenya. Kembu Farm is a working 800 acre dairy farm which also breeds […]
Hippos & Giraffes and a visit to the “Born Free” House – Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Descent into the Great Rift Valley and a stay at Lake Naivasha Another guest blog by Holly Melton January 14 & 15th. Anticipation was high as we drove out from […]
Jambo (Hello) – Our African Adventure Begins
(A guest blog by Holly Melton) For those of you who don’t know about our adventure, Mark and I are over-landing for 8 weeks (we began January 10, finishing March […]
Fes – Our Moroccan Road Trip Comes to an End
After spending New Year’s Eve camping on the Erg Chebbie sand dunes, our camels retraced their steps and took us back to our departure point, about a 1.5 hour camel […]
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