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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WEbQAVLjcg&hl=en&fs=1] Hey Guys! Just a quick note to let you all know that I’ve made it out of the rainforest (after two months of almost complete isolation…and only eighteen minutes of satellite phone communication with the outside world) and that I’m in healthy, happy, and thoroughly enjoying fresh vegetables for the first time in as long . . . → Read More: Left the Jungle! Every night during my stay at the MEGI compound, I would watch the fruit bats fly all over the sky in search of food. For four nights in a row, they came out exactly at 6:30pm. . . . → Read More: On clockwork. The logistics of preparing a long-term expedition are not a cake-walk. The people organizing the BBPP expedition have spent days trying to organize porters (from a nearby village), spent hours trying to barter and order food and replacement parts, organize volunteers, and figure out paperwork and identification passes for each volunteer. Overall, the BBPP and its employees are . . . → Read More: Preparing for Adventure. This last summer, a small group of my friends (all girls, by the way) decided to climb up Mount Wittenburg in the New York Catskills. Preparing for our adventure the night before, the only Wittenburg veteran quickly assured us that it was a “fun walk”, “not very hard”, and rounded off the conversation by . . . → Read More: How four girls climbed a mountain and survived. Hey Everyone!!! Less than 48 hours until I’m on a plane to Equatorial Guinea, and I am definitely getting nervous (in a good way) in anticipation of the unknown. I’m a little miffed that I have to be at the airport at 4:30am for a timely security check…but it’s all in the name of good travel! Last night I used . . . → Read More: Finals thoughts: Equatorial Guinea here I come! 
The Felsenmeer is a graveyard of enormous boulders, some entering the realm of small-house sized. Local legend has it that two giants were quarreling and decided to end the fight by flinging rocks at each other, leaving behind a massive battlefield of stone. A more plausible explanation of the giant sea of granite is the . . . → Read More: Felsenmeer: A place where giants fought and mythical heroes died. 
While walking through the Odenwald (Germany) today, I tried to take a snapshot of a cool looking branch on the ground. As I was bending down to take a closer look, I realized a small mouse was literally frozen to the side of the wood.Because of the below-zero temperatures, I quickly snapped a picture . . . → Read More: Frozen in Germany: an accidental snapshot. This guy sure was popular! (Venice, Italy)
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