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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
NOTE: I changed blogging platforms in order to publish this book. In the process I had to transfer many posts back to WordPress, my previous platform, which changed the date of publication. In order to let you know when the posts were originally published, I’ve added a date just preceding the first sentence or heading. For example: This post was originally published on my birthday, April 3, 2022, even though the date… Read More
In September, 2019, I was in Central Asia with son Scott and granddaughter Teresa. It was an exciting and busy time; consequently some of the best photo-albums were left out of posts from that time. Going through them now, almost 2 1/2 years later, I must include them in this belatedly published blog-book. About September 16, 2019: The confusion with time zones and days is greatest when one is exactly half way… Read More
Day Three … and Home…with art and aliens between. After a fine night’s sleep in a Roswell hotel, we were ready for art, and our first stop was the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. The Museum was opened in 1994 to showcase work produce by the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program, and it is packed with the most delightful and interesting assortment of contemporary art imaginable. It’s an especially welcoming place with the odd,… Read More
Day Two: We spent the first night in boarding-house like hotel in the little mountain town of Cloudcroft, 20 or so miles out of Alamogordo, since hotels in town seemed to be in the $300+ range. There must have been something going on with, or at, Holloman AFB since Alamogordo is not exactly tourist-central. We headed back into town after breakfast at Cloudcroft’s Dusty Boots Café where apparently masks were not allowed,… Read More