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On our way to Morocco

I’m always amazed at how quickly time passes on our long voyages. In a few days the packing routine will begin for our departure on May 11th in Lisbon. I’m posting a bunch of photos with captions on the what and where, enjoy.

Safe and on our way to Ghana…

For some reason my update post didn’t get up on the site, but we’re ok. Here’s what I thought was posted: A Portugese war ship was in control of the situation here. We never saw the capsized ferry or any debris or passesengers. But were told that the ferry did sink, there were survivors but […]

Drama on the High Seas

Today we’re scheduled to anchor off the coast of Sao Tome, a very small island right on the equator. At two hours from our scheduled time to arrive, the captain suddenly made a u turn and we all watched the land that was just coming into view start to disappear. Then they announced our ship […]

Male Lion in 3 Poses

This male lion was resting away from the family. We pulled alongside him and just watched as he basically paid no attention to us whatsoever. Every now and then he’d change position and I thought…quite the life…hence my captions.

Masai Mara Safari

It’s difficult to find words to describe the safari experience. I wanted to update everyone with photos on my blog however one “oh no” I quickly discovered on the cruise ship is that Wi-Fi is extremely slow. I have now posted several photos from our safari, I hope you enjoy. We stayed in a tent […]

Packing

We’re almost done packing for our trip. Now we only need to organize our electronics and weigh our luggage to see if we have to pull stuff out before we leave. Several people have asked me to write about how we pack for a month and a half journey, particularly since on the cruise we […]

In Development Mode

I’m at that stage of packing for another journey and wondering why there’s so much stuff ….