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Posted June 25, 2022: Sara and Celia are sleeping. I think Sara was up late with her first look at a TV in nearly a month. She’s actually not much of a TV person, mostly alternating between her real and iPhone lives, but I think the lure of a separate (from her kindly but not-always-exciting companions) living room comprised of windows overlooking Cape Town—Table Mountain and Lion’s Head in the background—and the… Read More
Posted June 23, 2022: Concern for how my unruly stomach would behave caused a good deal of pre-travel anxiety—after all, Sara deserved relatively healthy travel companions (even if a little long in the tooth as the horsey expression goes) on her first big trip abroad. Well, I made it until last night without one single down day, and now about 12 hours later I believe it’s come and gone. I have a… Read More
June 22, 2022: It is Day 23. Exactly halfway. Do I think this may have been a plan too ambitious? Not as long as Sara is having an adventure. We’ll see if and when the thrill wears off—doesn’t seem to have as yet, but while our present location in a comfy little contemporary hotel in Johannesburg is a welcome break, it’s also just a touch boring if we don’t force ourselves out… Read More
(Published June 12, 2022) The photo album of the day will be Celia experiencing Kenya with a few of her favorite friends…first though a small look at where we are right this very minute of our lucky lives. You know how I love rain, so I am not complaining that our game drive is rained out this evening. Actually we’ve been caught out in one wild rainstorm, with rainy evenings and bright… Read More
Posted June 9, 2022: Sara, my granddaughter, is our brand-new Adventurer. She’s 23, and this trip is all-new, all-shiny, all-firsts. Celia, an Experienced Traveler, is 70, however this is her first visit to the continent of Africa. Marjorie, is either the Wise or the Challenged member of the party. At 83 years-of-age, she’s traveled in 112 countries, but this jaunt is a challenge on a new front—the beginning of the end of… Read More
May 23, 2022: Please join Sara, Celia, and me for a toe-to-head trip on the continent of Africa. (The switch to a new platform has caused a certain amount of grief as technical “news” tends to do, but at least you can now subscribe to the tales of these young, medium, and old adventurers on the Meerkat trail.) We’ll begin halfway up the continent in East African Kenya for the first 10… Read More
On our summer vacation, Celia, Sara and I were scheduled to be in Kruger National Park in South Africa yesterday. At least we were in Plan A. I think that had changed to Lilongwe, Malawi in Plan B. However, as you all know the world has reverted to Plan X…so instead I went to MVD NOW to renew my driver’s license.
Even though Hillary Clinton lost the war (although winning the battle), I still admire her extensive travels as Secretary of State—and not one trip to a golf course, which is more than any of our golfing presidents can say. What is it about boys and their little balls? I read somewhere that Hillary had traveled to 120 countries in her life. I vowed to top that because then I would have traveled… Read More
(This set of posts comprise an addendum for Time and Place 2015-16, accounting for previous travels and events.) Nigeria is too big and important and rich and poor and diverse and brilliant and crazy to say much of anything in a few paragraphs. I visited for only a few days in 2012 and you know immediately it’s one of those countries like South Africa, Russia, Brazil or the U.S. that’s just too… Read More
This set of posts comprise an addendum for Time and Place 2015-16, accounting for previous travels and events. In all of my travels to 100 countries I’ve only been seriously ill twice, neither time life-threatening fortunately. A few years ago after a dance festival in Cape Town I climbed aboard a very big bus and headed for Windhoek, Namibia, almost 1,500 kilometers away. It was a great ride in a comfortable conveyance… Read More