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 […]