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African Adventure- Day 51
Things started to return to normal today and many more people were out on the streets…even street food returned! We got our Timbuktu stamps and discovered that we can no longer visit the mosque because a Spanish couple had gone … Continue reading
African Adventure- Day 47
105 Degrees 5pm in the shade After successfully completing our pirogue trip on the Niger River, we accomplished everything we wanted in Niger and made our way over to the border with Mali. We entered with no problems; it wasn’t … Continue reading
African Adventure- Day 36
Where to begin? We left this morning at 5:30 am. We tried to follow the roads on the map, which didn’t actually work out but a nice guy on a motor bike led us to the right road. We got … Continue reading
African Adventure- Day 29
Wet, wet, and wet. It took a few hours this morning drying out all of our things, luckily the sun was out to help us out. In fact, I even got a little sunburned. Our children friends were so excited … Continue reading
African Adventure- Day 26
Gotta love Yaoundé! We really enjoyed our time here. We lingered in the morning and said goodbye to all of our new friends. Grocery shopping took up a significant portion of the morning. We went to the super fancy “Casino” … Continue reading
Insects Attack, Part II- Day 14
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ. I awoke to a bee alarm clock this morning before sunrise. I suppose we should have paid closer attention last night to the number of insects as we were setting up camp. There must be a beehive … Continue reading
African Adventure- Days 11-13, Siat Ranch
We were fortunate to have a connection to Ernesto in Gabon. Peta’s good friend and colleague came to South Africa from Paraguay and one of his friend Ernesto has settled in Gabon running a cattle ranch near the Congo border. … Continue reading
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Congo/Gabon Border- Day 3
We woke up with the sunrise and started to pack up camp to make our final run for the border. Our 72 hours courtesy of our dear friends at immigration was ticking away. All along the road people would smile … Continue reading
Big African Adventure- Day 1
We woke up very early this morning, the time change threw us off. We went to the US Embassy first thing. We walked around for a bit and couldn’t find it and finally ended up taking a taxi. It took … Continue reading
Arrival in India
We have finally arrived in India after years of planning and reading. We have expected seething masses of people at every turn and complete chaos everywhere. We were surprised when we landed and every actually went smoothly! All of our … Continue reading