Free Range — on Traveling in Tanzania with My Children
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“By the last day of our stay in the game reserve, I had relaxed enough to leave the girls to their own devices while my husband and I joined an armed ranger on a walking safari, proscribed to kids sixteen or under. They had a good time. Amongst giraffes and whistling thorn trees, my husband and I did also.
We left the next day for Zanzibar exuberant and unscathed. I thought the most perilous part of our trip was finished.”
Free Range tells the true story of a trip I took to Tanzania with my young daughters, bringing an unanticipated peril. It first appeared in Brain, Child and then was selected for the anthology Best Women’s Travel Writing, Vol 10.
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