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Jody Cole  // Jody Cole
Owner, Licensed Field Guide, Wild Rainbow Safaris
www.wildrainbowsafaris.com

07 Apr Posted by in Jody Cole | Comments Off on Finding Comfort in the Covid-19 Crisis

Finding Comfort in the Covid-19 Crisis

Finding Comfort in the Covid-19 Crisis

My job as a safari guide in Africa allows me to take women (and men) on journeys to the great wilderness of the African Bush. Where it all began. A place of alluring and ancient mystery, a place of extraordinary adventures for the brave at heart. Africa’s wilderness with the huge beasts and invisible scaries, […]

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09 Mar Posted by in Jody Cole | Comments Off on I Made It!

I Made It!

I Made It!

I was going to try to make it. I was really going to try. But this time I couldn’t make it by myself. At least I knew that much. I was going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro – again. I was going to climb it, all 19,340 feet of it, for the second time. My first […]

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17 Nov Posted by in Jody Cole | Comments Off on Why Risk My Life on a Mountain?

Why Risk My Life on a Mountain?

Why Risk My Life on a Mountain?

In 1998, I had an epiphany. I was busy whining to my friends and to myself about how useless my life had been up to that point, and when you’re in that place in your life sometimes it takes just the right word to change your life forever. By the end of 1998, I had […]

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07 Sep Posted by in Jody Cole | Comments Off on Safari Dreams

Safari Dreams

Safari Dreams

Africa can be a dream vacation, as it was for me. I thought I would just go, check it off my ‘bucket list’ and come home. But what happened to me is what happens for so many of my guests on safari. They walk through a door they never can, nor want to, close again. […]

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14 Aug Posted by in Jody Cole | 1 comment

The Ellie’s Mock Charge

The Ellie’s Mock Charge

When you’ve been to Africa as many times as I have, you begin to collect what the safari guides term “encounters” with dangerous wildlife. I’ve had my share, especially since I prefer getting on the ground versus vehicle tours. Unlike in the movies, wildlife of all sorts have ways to let you know you’re unwelcome […]

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24 Jun Posted by in Jody Cole | 1 comment

How A Borrowed Jacket Saved My Life

How A Borrowed Jacket Saved My Life

In 1998, I had a life-changing phone call. I was in one of my sad-me moments, whining to a friend about how hard my life was and how everything that was wrong because I was wrong, and well you get the picture. But in my self-involved haze, I hadn’t taken the time to remember who […]

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