I'm married to a Zambian and have thereby inherited an extensive family! My wife grew up on a small farm. One of my stepsons comes from a farming family in Eastern Province. I've been there on a 10-day visit (medical and financial problems have kept me home since) but I get lots of intel from my wife who is over there currently. Plenty of poverty and backwardness, but the normal distribution function prevails and there are still people who are sharp and decent.
Keep Africa in mind. Every place has its problems---including the United States. I can recommend Zambia as a safe place to visit. Absolutely no racial tensions, with whites and blacks busy with their lives. In that respect, much more at ease than life here in America. Some hardship, but not usually found in decent hotels. Great wildlife tours. Victoria Falls (stupendous). The dollar goes far. Everyone speaks English, with more or less accent. More westerners have moved in over the past few years, so the general standard of quality in products and services has risen.
And, for those who are interested, it may be the home of the most beautiful women in the world (but I am biased by exposure).
Utah is spectacular. I've been there twice. Just to the east of Great Salt Lake over the mountains is an operational fossil extraction site and museum. They have an articulated skeleton of an allosaurus, kind of a smaller predecessor of the tyrannosaurus rex. It stood about 7 feet tall, with teeth that were like 6-inch daggers. Standing in front of it left me with a creepy feeling. It was a great white shark on legs. Also worth seeing is the John M. Browning museum in Odgen (rather unimposing, off the highway). And it is worth taking a dip in the Great Salt Lake itself. You are incredibly buoyant (but, for God's sake, don't get the water in your eyes). I think somewhere in the southlands is Dead Horse Point, an overlook to see the beginnings of the Grand Canyon.
I'm married to a Zambian and have thereby inherited an extensive family! My wife grew up on a small farm. One of my stepsons comes from a farming family in Eastern Province. I've been there on a 10-day visit (medical and financial problems have kept me home since) but I get lots of intel from my wife who is over there currently. Plenty of poverty and backwardness, but the normal distribution function prevails and there are still people who are sharp and decent.
Keep Africa in mind. Every place has its problems---including the United States. I can recommend Zambia as a safe place to visit. Absolutely no racial tensions, with whites and blacks busy with their lives. In that respect, much more at ease than life here in America. Some hardship, but not usually found in decent hotels. Great wildlife tours. Victoria Falls (stupendous). The dollar goes far. Everyone speaks English, with more or less accent. More westerners have moved in over the past few years, so the general standard of quality in products and services has risen.
And, for those who are interested, it may be the home of the most beautiful women in the world (but I am biased by exposure).
😄 I'm sure you're right, however my life is here now, in America, I've done all the foreign travel I wanted to last a lifetime.
We all have our quotas. No harm done. Plenty to see here. Good luck. If you can make it out west to see Crater Lake, that would be memorable.
I've been there! But my favorite place is Zion National Park in Utah.
Utah is spectacular. I've been there twice. Just to the east of Great Salt Lake over the mountains is an operational fossil extraction site and museum. They have an articulated skeleton of an allosaurus, kind of a smaller predecessor of the tyrannosaurus rex. It stood about 7 feet tall, with teeth that were like 6-inch daggers. Standing in front of it left me with a creepy feeling. It was a great white shark on legs. Also worth seeing is the John M. Browning museum in Odgen (rather unimposing, off the highway). And it is worth taking a dip in the Great Salt Lake itself. You are incredibly buoyant (but, for God's sake, don't get the water in your eyes). I think somewhere in the southlands is Dead Horse Point, an overlook to see the beginnings of the Grand Canyon.