When my brother Chris moved to Colorado, one of the first things he exported back to our family was the phrase “It can get a little Western.” I don’t know the origins or the etymology, or of it’s overused to the point of cliche now out in the Rockies, but in my life it’s just a thing Chris says when he expects the shit to hit the fan. And it’s a phrase I’ve happily adopted to describe that moment right before the wheels fall off. So…Things got a little Western here in Dar Es Salaam this...

“Fish in the sea You know how I feel River running free You know how I feel Blossom on a tree You know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a...

We drove in to Seronera thinking it was a town. We were wrong. Seronera is a small collection of buildings with vague purposes and...