Tagged: travel with kids

Day three and four… Ostriches, penguins and puke

After Jess finished with the hair braiding, we had another sub-par meal at Spur. Jess loves the playground and face painting and our hotel owner had told us they have AMAZING ribs. Hmmm not...

Day two – ate a caterpillar…

We were up early this morning to meet Xolani our tour guide from Uthando at 9am. Morning nazi had some trouble getting the family moving but I got them out of bed eventually!  After...

Day one… Jet lag!!

We arrived in Cape Town exhausted after an 11 plus hour flight from Heathrow. Again, hats off to BA for a decent flight experience. Did I mention they still offer one free checked bag?...

Sunny day in London! 

Sitting at heathrow airport chilling with a Starbucks. Very tired after our overnight flight from Calgary. Can’t wait to get to Cape Town! Gotta hand it to British Airways – what a great airline!...

Ready for takeoff

On the plane- finally! Gotta love British Airways! Great staff, let us load early even though our kid is certainly old enough to manage herself. We even got blankets and pillows and toothbrushes and...

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...

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