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I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Distance Flying Time Travel

People dream. They talk about escaping from it all. Their friends and family diligently listen and politely ignore it when the ruminations fade into oblivion. So quite a few eyebrows went up when I made this trip a reality.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Inspirational Travel

For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Rain Swahili Tanzania Travel Zanzibar

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Freedom Time Travel

When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes - primarily boring meetings, back-biting office politics and pantyhose - were just whining.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Employment Gratitude Kenya Perspective Travel

Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

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Kristine K. Stevens Priorities Shopping Tanzania Travel

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

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Kristine K. Stevens Fear Inspirational Life Travel

While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment - the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the challenge of getting photographs of the monkeys, my immature urge to make the driver wait even longer because he was annoying - would feed me for years to come.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens Adventure Exploration Tanzania Travel

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them becometrees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that itwas because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there somethinghumbling I needed to know?

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Kristine K. Stevens God Journey Pilgrimage Travel Travel Writing Truth
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