Before Kenya, Alicia invited her son into the preparation. He helped research what to carry; films and music gave them a shared imaginative map before the first safari drive. Once there, phone signals faded and the days were set by game drives and the movement of animals.
They watched the Great Migration move through the Maasai Mara and came close enough to giraffes for her son to notice their eyelashes. Clothing was not costume but part of arriving with care. Alicia dressed for the journey, then gave the landscape her full attention.
Close enough for her son to notice a giraffe’s eyelashes.
