Browsing Archive: June, 2010

TBEX 2010 ~ New York City

Posted by Jason Hussong on Tuesday, June 29, 2010,

I wanted to travel to New York City for the Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) conference to try to become a better blogger, as well as to meet some people I had talked with on Twitter for quite some time. I wouldn't exactly say I wanted to network since, to me, that implies business, and blogging about travel is definitely more of a hobby and passion of mine than anything like a business. For me, going to New York City was just a way to meet up with a bunch of friends who also like writing about ...

Rwanda ~ Kwita Izina & World Environment Day

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, June 21, 2010,

One of two big events that our group was to partake in during our trip to Rwanda was the baby gorilla naming ceremony - Kwita Izina. The other, a trek to see the gorillas in the mountains, w

ould take place the next day. And everyone in the group was nothing short of excited for both events as we knew they'd be the two biggest highlights we'd take home as memories in an amazingly wonderful country.

The sixth annual naming celebration was taking place in conjunction with World Environment Day...

Rwanda ~ Igitaramo

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, June 17, 2010,

The drive from Kigali to Ruhengeri in Rwanda is nothing short of spectacular. And for once, while traveling, it paid off to be tall since I was able to commandere the front passenger seat for the drive. After all of those years of trying to squeeze my big legs into a coach seat on a flight, I finally was able to put them to good use and have the best seat in the car for the beautiful drive - where we emphatically learned why Rwanda is known as The Land of a Thousand Hills.

The drive wen...

Rwanda ~ The Hotel des Mille Collines

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, June 17, 2010,

Late one night while relaxing on the couch I caught the movie Hotel Rwanda on television by chance. I had never seen it before, although always having been keen to do so, and felt that this was the sign I needed to know that this trip was meant to be. It was surely a sign, in my min

d, that I should travel to the heart of Africa and learn more about what Rwanda has to offer.

So, while I waited to learn where the group would be staying, I held out hope that it'd be at the actual hotel, th...

Rwanda ~ The Kigali Genocide Memorial

Posted by Jason Hussong on Monday, June 14, 2010,

On our first morning together as a group in Rwanda we took a brief city tour before heading over to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center. I knew it was a necessary stop on the trip, but I really had no desire to see once again how brutal one man can be towards another; my trip to Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany was quite enough. Still though, I went with the g

roup and toured the center.

We didn't have much time to tour the museum as we were on a bit of a budget when it came to t...

Rwanda ~ 2010

Posted by Jason Hussong on Thursday, June 10, 2010,

I wanted to post stories while in Rwanda, but the group was so busy that there was hardly time to do anything but eat, sleep and see the sites. But now that I'm back from the trip eight time zones away, I plan on giving a full report on everything we saw. I want to start here though with a

brief overview of what we did in Rwanda, and then go into each stop in more detail later with adding various tips and suggestions for anyone traveling to Rwanda; there's just so much to write that it's i...