Here’s where we are. Jessica and I have just returned from an amazing honeymoon/ vacation in Kenya and the Netherlands, inspired by the wedding of Jessica’s brother Martin to his fiancée Jennie. While Martin
and Jennie met in Las Vegas where they live, Jennie is Kenyan, and Kenyans like to have weddings in Kenya. Can you blame them?

So, a relatively small American contingent of twenty or so of Martin’s intrepid relatives have schlepped to Africa — certainly to see Martin married off to the excellent and lovely Jennie, but also: how many excuses do you need to go to a whole freaking new continent?

Jessica and I have been married four months, and had not yet had a honeymoon, so we decided to use this trip to Kenya in such manner, with an added jaunt of a few days in Amsterdam on the way back. Why Amsterdam? You can’t fly to Kenya directly; might as well go somewhere nice on the half-way. I had spent an afternoon in Amsterdam a few years ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s an utterly pretty city, and totally kitschy at the same time. Lots of water, lots of idiotic t-shirts: it’s the Niagara Falls of Europe. So hey, honeymoon!

Anyway, we’re back, and I’d like to tell you all about our buon viaggio. I’m going to lay it out day by day (with fudgy timestamps as if I’m blogging from the limpid past), so although I’m writing after the fact and all, it will be like you’re RIGHT THERE IN THE ACTION. To really give you the full monkey, I probably should write it in the second person. You like the second person. You wish more people wrote that way. You are thrilling to the possibilities: not merely able to experience Africa vicariously, but dare you say it, I-cariously.

Actually, you’re glad that I’m abandoning that approach to travel writing, starting just over here –>. Whew! How about I’m just going to tell you about each day as it happened, and illustrate it with a few pictures from all the good times?

If you feel like cheating somewhat before I get this all writtenated, and have a high tolerance for pictures devoid of sociological context, you can always see the pictures swimming through our Flickr streams:

Ryan Flickr
Jessica Flickr

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