Happy 2010 to All, It's not so bad turning 67 in a lush rainforest. Amani Nature Reserve was so beautiful and verdant. Calls from family and friends, along with birds, butterflies, and botanical beauty. We spend 3 night in the Eastern Usambara Mts, close to our Western Usambaras as the Pied Crow flies, but not via dirt roads. Not quite as high as our mts. but more dense forest and protected from lumber and farming concerns. The Germans came here in 1902 for lumber, but couldn't feasibily get into the heart of the forest so it still stands - a heavily foliaged area with big leafs and huge trees that make a home for the many birds, reptiles, anphebians, monkeys, and insects. To say nothing about the plant life. It was here that the African Violet
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