My Great Rift Valley Trek with the Maasai. Our adventure begins fitfully at the same place as humankind as we leave the Serengeti behind and reenter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Oldupai Gorge. The entrance is far from what I remember from our first visit here twenty-five years previous. The old museum is still intact but is dominated by a new amphitheater that hangs from the cliff directly over the gorge. A local Maasai museum docent provides us with an understandin

Images and Narrative by Gene Taylor, 2021 The trip is set. Africa is a reality. It's for business, not a pleasure holiday, and it's departing in late October 2021. It was supposed to happen a year and a half ago. At least that's when we made plans and arrangements. Fucking pandemic did a number on us. But here we are, somewhere over the Atlantic headed for the Mediterranean, then over the Arabian Peninsula to Doha, Qatar, then across Saudi Arabia to JRO, Kilimanjaro Internat

MY VISION ​ T his is a story of how incredibly driven and talented young girls are seeking to build their futures and improve the lives of their families through education. In Morocco, that’s not as easy as it sounds. ​ By looking at a small section of their community, we can see the transformation from striving young girls into thriving young women. The roles of their grandmothers and mothers, though critical to the family's success in the village, are culturally viewed as l