Tag Archive | "Travel"
Coming Home: Los Angeles
Coming back from the Canary Islands took three planes, two airlines, and twenty hours. It is great to be back in L.A. If you live in an established neighborhood and have a car, then Los Angeles is probably the most convenient city in the world. In fact, where my family lives, you don’t even need a car [...]
Continue reading...Canary Islands: Day One
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I arrived in the Canary Islands at one a.m. and went straight to sleep. I couldn’t get up until twelve hours later at one p.m. I was so groggy that I could barely make my way out of the hotel room. I was so jet-lagged and nauseous that I would have willingly confessed to any past [...]
Continue reading...One Day of Travel: LAX to the Canary Islands
Friday, May 29, 2009
It took one entire day of travel to reach the Canary Islands. My plane was to leave LAX sometime after eight a.m. At 4:15 a.m. I get a call from US Airways that my flight has been delayed 100 minutes and that they will make alternative arrangements instead. I am very grateful. After hours at [...]
Continue reading...Canary Islands:Here we come
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Last night I drove back to Los Angeles in solitude, except for the CD player pumping out BB King and Guns and Roses, from San Diego where I had posted the first two entries on my blog. Even though it was midnight, it still took two hours and forty minutes to get back because there [...]
Continue reading...Greetings from San Diego: one day only
Sunday, May 24, 2009
I am a person of solitudes. The species that I work with, the Bornean orangutan, is solitary or semi-solitary. In the past I have spent many, many days alone on the forest floor observing orangutans, trailing them as they wandered through the forest canopy, foraging for food. More recently, it almost seems as if I spend [...]
Continue reading...About the Author
Scientist, conservationist, educator: for almost four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.Latest Flickr photos
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