Category: Pre-Departure Southern Africa

Down to the wire…

11:04 PM. Grant is blissfully sleeping after spending the afternoon and evening drinking and golfing with coworkers. His bags are sitting all packed and ready to go. (I hate him just a little bit...

Five days and two last minute logistical problems 

Things are just starting to shape up and look like we might be actually ready to hit the airport on Friday with reasonably well packed bags. Then we discover TWO relatively major issues: First,...

Ten days to go…PANIC!

TEN days. Ten. How the hell did that even happen? The list of trip related things left to do is still pretty long and there is ZERO time to do it! I still need...

Trans Kalahari Trip Notes and link to route map

For those of you who are interested, here are the trip notes for the guided tour portion of our upcoming trip. You can also see the whole itinerary including our two weeks of independent travel on...

Africa trip is ON!

I spoke with the social worker today and they have agreed to keep Pat in rehab until we return from our vacation! Now we don’t have to worry about her being released while we...

26 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes and 36 seconds until AFRICA! (or maybe not – we’ll see)

Well, it’s been quite a crazy few weeks. I spent an entire weekend a while ago dusting off my old travel blog from our RTW trip so I could do our upcoming Africa trip...

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