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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock New* Staff ^ riter
Each fall, when the grass on the Serengetti plains in Tanzania is short enough for wildlife to be observed, Jon and Hazel Rood and their daughter Josephine board a plane to London, then one to Kilimanjaro and from there on to Tanzania.
A day’s trip over land takes them to their home in the Serengetti Wildlife Research Center where they spend the winter surrounded by lions, zebras, elephants and other African native animals including the main object of Jon’s study - the mongoose.
Doable Life
In the spring and summer, the Roods fit quietly into the pattern of life in Rappahannock. They garden at their home near Sperryville. Josephine attends high school, Jon writes up the results of his season’s research and commutes occasionally to the Conservation Center in Front Royal to use its library.
They have been making the Rappahannock-Dulles Ixindon-Tanzania trip for the two years they’ve lived in the
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