Category: Exploring Africa

3 days off from hiking Mount Elgon on the eastern border of Uganda, Joan and I  set out for the far western border in search of the mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.  After a night in Kampala enjoying lobster and ice cream, we missed the only bus to Bwindi at 5:30am only to catch…Continue readingGorilla Trekking in Bwindi National Park

Located on the border of Uganda and Kenya, Mount Elgon’s summit sits at 4321 meters above sea level.  Joan and I took a 3 hours taxi from Jinja to Sipi River Lodge for a week to see the water falls and to hike the mountain.  Our hiking journey took 3 days and the other 2…Continue readingHiking Sipi Falls and Mount Elgon

A full 12 hour day of traveling crammed into a dirty, smelly, scary bus gets you from Jinja to Katunguru just outside of the Queen Elizabeth National Park gates on the eastern slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains providing the division between The Congo and Uganda. Driving to the town, you cross into national park reserved…Continue readingSafari Adventure in Queen Elizabeth National Park

For the past 5 weeks, I’ve been visiting a cooperative garden just north of Jinja.  A group of 160 HIV positive Ugandans come to learn about and grow vegetables not native to Ugandan diets.  They grow many different types of lettuce, carrots, okra, onion, tomatoes, just to name a few, instead of bananas, cassava, beans,…Continue readingCommunity Gardening in Jinja, Uganda

For all you city dwelling, paper pushers out there, this garden is just about due for a harvest. You don’t need a green thumb to know when to eat a tomato or pick a head of cabbage. Check out the pictures from today and you’ll start to drool all over that $150 Apple wireless keyboard.…Continue readingGarden Update at the Ngobi House

My all time favorite activity in Uganda is tending to our small garden at the Ngobi House.  TQ jokes that I am too much of a hippie for loving my garden so much.  I like getting my hands dirty picking weeds, having a sweat going with the hoe and shovel, and eating from the garden…Continue readingBuilding a Sustainable Home Garden in Uganda