Botswana

Today we spend most of the day getting from Cape Town to Camp Okevango in the Okevango Delta .  First we take a scheduled flight to Maun, Botswana and the transfer to a charter flight to our camp.

 

our charter flight was a helicopter, a surprise for Max, who happily serves as co-pilot, […]

A Long Flight, A Longer Swim

  In case he is reading this, we want to assure Judson that we miss him.   Travel to exotic places inevitably involves days that are pretty-much just travel. Today is one of those. We set out from ATL(where I’m writing this), flew from there to Newark and then from Newark to Capetown. Total […]

Pre-trip Surprise

Not all trips to Africa from Chicago start in Atlanta, but ours will, because we’ll be  picking up Max, our almost-12 year old grandson there (and visiting with Max’s family for a couple days) before going out to hunt lions.

As a very seasoned traveler, you’d think that preparing to leave would be duck soup […]

The Quirky Cape

When we arrived in Cape Town, we were ushered through the various steps expeditiously by people our travel agent had arranged for.  The ATMs would not accept our credit cards so we are stuck with dollars rather than Randy’s for our two days here.  We emerge from the airport to cold, rainy weather and […]

Thinking About Photography

Last post told you that this one would likely be from Africa, or en route.  I lied.

I’m still in Atlanta, warming up for the trip, visiting with family, waiting.  From time to time in my blogs, I reflect on the experience of travel or on something else that’s on my mind.  If you’re […]