Our Travels

I first lived in South Africa in 1972, found and married my late wife, Estelle, in 1973, and have been back every two years or so ever since both visiting family and touring that part of Africa including trips to Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, and Tanzania. My wife Sarah and I typically spend winters in Cape Town. While I lost Estelle in 2021, South Africa and her/my family there remain close to my and Sarah's hearts. While there is much I still haven’t seen,

Since we were without our NBB adventure group expert trip secretary Rube, on this trip, I’ll try to substitute. It was a small NBB group this time with Dan, Sam, and I making our respective trips to Southeast Georgia. We were all feeling airplane deprived since Dan and I are both temporarily grounded and so, Dan drove 11hr round trip from Canton, GA, I did about 10 hr of commercial air time, and Sam did about 10 hr of drive time to and from Carrabelle with stops at JAX to shu

We’ve been to many 2 nd and 3 rd world countries. We always struggle with understanding the history of how they ended so far behind the First World countries. Australia is a completely different experience. Here we arrive at a previously isolated, former British penal colony, at the other end of the world, that has created a first world country and has maintained it for many years. “How did dey do dat?” We always thought we’d get a chance to visit here one day, and indeed a