Living in Africa

Expat adventures aren’t all about finding cats in foreign hospital hallways, breaking a leg in the jungle or almost ending up in jail. Sometimes all you have to do is…

Don’t you just love going to dinner parties?  They’re especially fun when you live in a foreign country, where as an expat you tend to end up having an eclectic…

After our bizarre, ten-minute wedding ceremony in Kenya was over, I wasn’t sure if my Peace Corps volunteer hero and I were really married or not.  What I did know…

I had planned to eat worms tonight, but instead I’m facing a hamburger and fries. I am not amused. Having traveled thousands of miles across the African continent I have arrived in a country with the exotic and lyrical name of Zimbabwe, land of the fabled Shona chiefs

Is there such a thing as fear of flowers? Floraphobia? When you’re a western expat or traveler spending time in exotic countries, you learn that along with the local people…