Trip:
Kenya Safari
Location:
Masai Mara, Kenya
Date:
Date:
Jul 1, 2026
Location:
Jul 1, 2026
Seats Left:
0
About the Trip:
Itinerary
Friday
13:00 Sprinter departs Austin • arrive ranch 15:00
Sporting-clays warm-up and safety brief
Creek-side welcome dinner • intent-setting circle
Saturday
06:00 Guided hog stalk or axis-ridge track
Late breakfast • quiet hours / hammocks / journaling
Founder hot-seats in the pavilion
Harvest dinner from the day’s take • mesquite-fire circle
Sunday
Dawn ridge walk • 90-day plan share-out
Brunch on the deck
11:00 depart ranch • back in Austin ~13:00
Inclusions
Entire ranch to ourselves — six stone-walled bedrooms, great-room lounge, creek-side pavilion, hammocks under the pecans
Camp-kitchen team plating Hill-Country produce, mesquite-smoked pork or axis from our own harvest
Gear on hand — well-fitted rifles and shotguns, ear/eye protection, clays, ammo, coolers, and vacuum-seal bags for processed meat
One-click Texas hunting licence link + optional hunter-ed deferral email sent in advance
Round-trip Sprinter van Austin ⇄ Medina, plus ranch trucks for canyons and ridge trailheads
Guides, butchering, firewood, and dawn coffee handled quietly in the background so the weekend stays simple and yours
FROM THE GUEST BOOK
“Two nights of mesquite smoke and wide Texas sky—one clean shot, one long table, and a head clear enough to hear what comes next.”
ABOUT THE Trip
Two hours west of Austin you turn off the pavement, roll through a low-water crossing, and enter 417 private acres of oak ridges, live-water creek, and quiet big enough to reset a team of eight founders.
Rancho Madroño’s Main & Creek Lodges give us the run of six en-suite bedrooms, a high-ceilinged great room, and a covered pavilion that looks straight onto spring water. Cell bars fade; so does outside urgency. Friday opens with a short clay-target session that gets total beginners comfortable behind a shotgun. At first light on Saturday we split: one guide leads a hog stalk along the creek; another takes an optional ridge hike after axis deer. Whatever we bring back is broken down on site—wild pork shoulder or axis loin anchors the fire-pit dinner while notebooks open on a cedar slab table and the next ninety days take shape. Wi-Fi stays off unless someone needs the emergency line. By Sunday brunch you carry a field-dressed harvest, a mapped plan, and a steadier rhythm back to Austin.
What’s woven into the weekend:
The ranch is ours alone.
Six stone-walled rooms, a pavilion over the creek, and a hammock line under pecans—no other guests and no competing timetables.
Tools placed gently in your hands.
Well-fitted rifles and shotguns, fresh ear- and eye-protection, guides within whisper distance until every shot feels deliberate.
Orientation first.
Fifteen-minute safety brief, a dozen clays to break, confidence locked in before we walk.
Choose your hunt.
Dawn option: stalk feral hogs in the creek bottoms. Alternate: climb the ridge for an axis-ram track. Fair-chase, one clean shot, guide beside you all the way.
Earn the table.
A camp-kitchen team turns field harvest, local produce, and Hill-Country staples into suppers that taste of mesquite smoke and late-summer tomatoes. If we take a hog, it’s on the table that night.
Space for the work that matters.
Prompt cards slide into field notebooks, cedar tables hold 90-day mapping, creek-trail partner walks clear the head when an idea needs air.
Travel without friction.
Sprinter van leaves Austin Friday, returns Sunday. Hunting licences handled online in ten clicks; one-page hunter-ed deferral link included.
Everything else.
Firewood stacked, coffee on before dawn, meat vacuum-sealed for the ride home—so the weekend stays simple, grounded, and yours.
