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Posted August 29, 2022: I left you in the last post whining about cold South African mornings. Getting ready for meerkats—and, it turns out, one of my favorite mornings on the trip….almost as good as safari-time out in the Mara’s cold dawn back at Basecamp. But first, I do ask myself, why? It is early, dark, cold, no coffee. Surly, am I surly again? Isn’t there a meerkat show I could have… Read More
Posted August 21, 2022: The southern and northern edges of countries, regions, and continents have always intrigued me. Perhaps because I grew up on the northern border of the US, which was, of course Canada’s ‘deep south.’ For some unknown reason I found that fascinating—how could my cold home be anybody’s southland (after all, in my so-far short and mostly untraveled life, all information came from books and they told me places… Read More