Waking Expectant Archive

We love the southwest… its hoodoos and arches and canyons, its vistas and solitude.  The Chiracahua Mountains have been on our list for a while,…

How does one go from writing a blog about an international mega-trip to writing about a Sunday afternoon outing? Maybe in a similar way as…

We arrived in Vienna very early on Christmas Eve day.  It was strange to be back in such a modern place with its luxuries, including…

We spent fifteen amazing, grueling, mind-blowing, exhausting days in Chad. Of those days, the better part of eight of them were spent sitting in the…

Chad’s Zakouma National Park is an unexpected gem in this part of the world. Established in 1963, it has seen its share of turmoil. During…

As we left Ennedi we felt a deep sense of disquietude.  Getting there was so difficult, and we had fallen in love with the place. …