In mid-February of this year, my wife, her parents, my mother, and myself, left for a vacation in East Africa: Kenya & Tanzania! Personally, my heart was exploding to be returning to East Africa. I had spent a month in East Africa, mostly Tanzania, in 2004, with a small group of graduate students studying cultural ecology in Ndarakwai Game Reserve. In a nutshell, these studies focused on whether the reserve was sustainable to the number of elephant herds or whether it was bey