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I've been home for just over a week, and in a way, I feel like I've never left. Sure, the Minnesotan accent is very thick in some of my friends' voices, and I had forgotten just how sugary the coffee coolers are at Caribou Coffee, but all things considered, being here feels pretty good. Remind me that I like it here when it is -40 F and icy--I'll need the encouragement.

Being on my home turf is no better place to post the best-of-the-best photos from my adventures (coincidentally, not taken by me, but my friends) . After those posts are up, we'll talk about where this blog will go from there, but for now, enjoy some wackiness!
Just enjoying one of the dozens of cups of tea with goat milk in the hallway of a Maasai family's home. Mmm! Alecks and I had a few good laughs about being the ones sitting in the hallway--no one better for the task. Clearly.
Eating goat was the most interactive dinner preparations I have ever experienced. That's my friend Micah holding up pretty much the only part of the goat the Maasai don't eat--or do they?
Eating No. 4 of 7 goats...the only time we had it with rice. That did nothing to make me like it, so thankfully I was sitting next to Elphas and Andy, who let me put it all on their plates.

And this is a lovely shot of Mt. Kilimanjaro on our zippy Embraer 170 from Arusha to Nairobi. I'd say it is hotter in Minnesota than it is in Tanzania now. Yikes!

More later, enjoy!