he last leg of our safari adventure was in the Amboseli game reserve. We were on our mission to get the 'money shot', a picture with an elephant in front of a clear Mount Kilimanjaro, which is only about 50km away. It was more bumpy roads for nearly the entire ride from Tsavo, but we'd been on so many by this time that we were very used to them. I think I even fell asleep for a portion of the bouncing around, even for me, that's saying a lot. We were staying at the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge which Read more [...]

Our first day on safari in the Maasai Mara started off with a 5 hour drive out of Nairobi, the last half of which was over some of the roughest roads that we had ever experienced anywhere. I took some video from inside the van that should hopefully give you an idea what the last 2.5 hours of our drive was like… Once we arrived at the Sarova Mara Game Camp we were welcomed with warm face clothes (very much needed) and then signed into our luxury tent accommodations. These 'tents' were pretty Read more [...]

The last day of our build was a big deal for our entire team. Our team members that had done Habitat builds before had told us that it's actually quite rare to see a house go from start to finish. Yet here we had 3 houses that were nearly done that were nothing more than holes in the ground when we started. There was also a lot of emotions going around as well since this would be the last day that we would see the families we're building for and the people that have been helping us to reach our Read more [...]

To explain the title, one of our teams leaders Matt used the "Let's build some dreams people, because dreams don't build themselves" many times throughout the day.  It was something that started with a previous build he did, and by the end of the trip it had caught on with many of us as the motto to start each day. The next couple of build days were very intense, plenty of stone hauling, water gathering, mortar mixing and other labours.  There was definitely lots of work for everybody to do. We Read more [...]