top of page
Search

Learning Dog Tricks Made Me a Calmer Person

While practicing the dog trick, Leave It, with my seven-year old pup, I unexpectedly learned to regulate my own impulsive reactions and...

Seeing is Believing

For one day out of the year, Incans from all four corners of Peru journey to the Moray in Sacred Valley and pay homage to Mother Earth,...

Jamestown

Before last week, I had never been to an insane asylum. Maybe I still haven’t been to one. Much has changed since my grandfather was...

Camp Nyota 2018 and The Maasai

On the first day of Camp Nyota, our awareness is high. We want to learn everything we can about the Maasai people in Tanzania from our...

Fleetwood Mac 2018 Tour – San Jose

Unedited Concert Review If there was any doubt Fleetwood Mac could pull off another great concert tour without their original lead...

Big Five, Ugly Five, Fab Five, and … Cute Five

Ten minutes after we’re met by our driver, he pulls the jeep over to show us a mother and baby elephant feasting on an acacia tree....

The Great Wildebeest Meander

Our lives are in danger every time we step out of our tent past 6 pm without an Askari, Maasai escort. The unassuming protector wears a...

Lions in Spring Part 2: The Chase

We happened upon another pride not related to the Rekero Brothers or the Minoka Ladies. Altogether four prides rule the more than forty...

Lions in Spring

The story of Naboisho Camp’s lions begins long before this Spring when these mating videos were taken. Camp Naboisho’s managers, Andrea...

I Kissed a Boy (Giraffe) and I Liked It

Not all Giraffes are good kissers. Edd, the large male and sire to any offspring born at Nairobi’s Giraffe Center, uses a lot of tongue....

The fighting is over. Nothing but the tears remain.

As the Rwandan jazz singer belts out the American classic “Stand by Me” to the twenty or so business people and tourists sipping...

Bugs, Bacteria, and Contagious Diseases

Leo (our chow mix) knows something is up. The suitcases are out. He doesn’t care that we’re leaving. He wants to leave in the car too....

Three Weeks ’til Africa

It’s Labor Day and we’ve been on our computers all day. Dave is taking a break from mapping our twenty-one-day journey in Eastern Africa...

Blog: Blog2

cyndie zikmund | author

My Professional Author Portfolio

IMG_1857.HEIC
Blog: Welcome

Subscribe Form

Stay up to date

Thanks for submitting!

Blog: Subscribe
bottom of page