Ready for Takeoff
I'm almost ready! Tomorrow I depart for South Africa for the first time. It's a strange feeling because I've been thinking about this trip for so long that it has started to feel almost like a fever dream. For months I've been researching museums, booking workshops, comparing safari lodges, studying maps, and revising itineraries. What began as a bucket-list idea and a grant proposal slowly became a stack of reservations, confirmations, and spreadsheets. Now, somehow, it's r
