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Scenes from a Kenya Safari
Text and photographs by George W. Stone
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You don't have to be a travel writer to use the world's dreamiest phrase. All you need to do is buy an airplane ticket, and when your friends ask where you're going, unleash the magic: "Oh, I'm headed to Africa…"
But having now deployed this vague seduction on a number of occasions, I'm growing disenchanted with it. My complaint is that it's imprecise. For though the phrase is rich in suggestion, it's starved for specificity. And Africa, as I've come to appreciate, is the most specific place on Earth.
This dusty elephant family, which congregated around a nearly dry riverbed, would soon be soothed by the rains of April and May. I headed to Kenya, an East African nation roughly twice the size of Nevada, in early spring just before the rainy season settled in.
*Home page photograph by David McLain
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