Folake, Sidney and I just returned from a 6-day vacation to see Mark and Francesca get married in Padernello which is west of Treviso and north of Venice, Italy. We flew out Tuesday, arrived Wednesday, and it seemed like the party started rather immediately. We all went out for dinner ...

Don't have a whole lot of time to write, so this is just a short update to say that Thailand is fantastic, the food is great (albeit interesting at times), and definitely relaxing. We're going out for the day right now, and having dinner later with my old friend Piti, ...

Our friend Peter, the master visual storyteller has done it again. I am sufficiently bummed out to be sitting here behind my desk working due to checking out one of his photos on my morning run through my feeds. My friends' photos feeds come to me on my phone, and ...

I woke up today at the relatively reasonable hour of 5.45am...a far cry from normal, but even farther from the insane 2am wake-ups that have been markin' my jet-lagged ass for the past week. I'm finally able to do some good time in the bed, sleeping and sleeping. I don't ...

My sleeping schedule is completely wreck'd. I have been waking at 2am, bright as a butterfly ready for the day. It's a little strange to be waking before the hour at which I more occasionally go to sleep. Alas, jet lag can do this. I'm doing my best to stay ...

It's been more than two days now that I've been travelling, and my body is reeling from the experience. My heart is engaged, sorting out the maelstrom of emotions which are overwhelming at the present moment. My head is rather clear though, and I'm in a calm which is certainly ...

Damn it, I hurt my foot. I was running up the beach in the middle of another game of football (a game which I should be banned from as a result of recurring injury) and stepped on a large hunk of coral rock which blended right into the sand. It ...

I never thought I'd have to say it, but when it came out of my mouth this morning, I burst into laughter - "Kuna wadudu ndani ya mayai!" Which basically translates into, "There're ants in my eggs!," but I still only heard myself say that there is doodoo in my ...

For those of you who don't know, the calendar, the clock, and the days of the week are all significantly different than they are in the rest of the world. Here, and everywhere else in the Muslim world days, weeks, months and years are all run from a different system. ...

The third week has started, and it started with a bang yesterday. I awoke with a stiff back from swimming out on Changuu a couple of days prior, but really because I haven't let it have the proper time to heal cause I'm not going to sit still during this ...

My clothes have been hanging on the line for the last two days and they are still kinda damp. The humidity is so crazy strong that I have to wait days for them to dry. Not much else to report today. I'm going to head out for lunch and then ...

So, I awoke this morning with barely any pain. I guess running and keeping oneself in pretty good shape actually does decrease your recovery time. I laid low today 'cause I'm still not 100%, but at least I'm not in pain. I did some work that needed to be done, ...

Every time I have left the confines of my own culture and stepped into another I've been greeted by culture shock in the wake of a sickness or injury. When I stayed out on the Hopi Reservation 9 1/2 years ago, it was sickness that woke me up to my ...

Thousands of days have passed since I left Zanzibar some hundred plus months ago. And, I think nary a day I have not thought about East Africa, my past and my hopeful future of living in Zanzibar again. The idea is certainly one which is appealing still, but I am ...

Friday was a lazy day filled with very little. I sat still quite a bit, bounced around town with Marshed to Darjiani marketplace picking up a few things that I needed, and then just hung around some more. I was told that we were leaving early Saturday morning for a picnic ...

Kathryn is celebrating an anniversary of sorts, and asked me to join her for cake and a long conversation where we can sit down and share our stories of how we both came to be here, where we are now. She's a little tired right now, so we're baking a ...

This morning I was able to sit for awhile and take in the second prayer call, using in the beautiful hypnosis as the backdrop for my own prayers. Today was a good day. A sad day, to be sure, but a good day nonetheless. My prayers go out to all ...

Man, is my Kiswahili bad; or, as Marshed told the guy behind the counter at the Bureau de Exchange today, "anaweza kusema Kiswahili kizuri, lakini hawezi kusikiliza chochote," which basically means "he can speak Swahili well, but he can't hear a thing." It is so true. My family definately speak ...

I have arrived. I am so tired. I will catch you all up tomorrow. For now, I've arrived safely. Much love, GregSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nipo Zanzibar; naenda kulala", url: "http://greghuntoon.com/2005/07/07/nipo-zanzibar-naenda-kulala/" });

It worked. I surprised the hell out of my family, and then they returned the favour by smashing all ideas I had of having functional Kiswahili. It was so commonplace to walk back through the doorway, into the central courtyard, up to the front door, and in to great my ...

I have arrived, safe and well. The flight wasn't nearly as painful as I thought that it might be. It was pretty bumpy all the way from Amsterdam, but I passed out a little ways in, after watching some movie which I can't remember now. After a long line at the ...

So, we�ve been up in the air for about 2 hours, roughly 5 hours left, and I�m starting to wane on energy. It�s really only 9.44pm from the time I�m leaving, but 4.44am where I�m headed. I�d like to get adjusted as soon as possible, because jet lag when traveling ...

So, I'm running around town with Morgan and Tierney, and have spent a perfectly beautiful Toronto day plowing around the town. I spent some time up at the conference earlier in the day, as I had a few meetings that I needed to attend, but then the afternoon was spent ...

We arrived safely in Buffalo, although our flight was a little late. Our friends Tim and BJ offered to have us share their hotel room for the night so that we could avoid driving up to Toronto so late at night. We decided to just push on through, and we ...

It's Wednesday night, and I'm sitting on the plane next to a sleeping sister Emily, and oddly enough, directly behind two sets of friends who boarded our plane when we stopped in Vegas a few hours ago (Tim H. and the elder Klink from the northern part of the state, ...

Late yesterday, I discovered that my first investigation into the required immunizations and innoculations was missing an important piece of information: if you enter directly into Tanzania, you don't need a yellow fever vaccination card, but if you are entering multiple Sub-Saharan African nations, it is required. So, I'm sitting in ...

It's a late Tuesday night for me, as I'm trying to make some preparations for my holiday (leaving for Toronto a week from tomorrow, and then hop on a plane on the 4th of July bound for Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania). So I'm trying to get my packing list completed, and ...