So now we're sitting in the Atlanta airport, awaiting our 15.5 hour flight to Johannesburg. Bags are checked, anticipation is running high. Brad Wood (Anita's dad) and Callie Bestor are here, too, flying on the same flight. We'll tour South Africa for three weeks, hopefully seeing and photographing all the safari animals that we've ever heard of, and maybe some that we've never heard of. Food should be good, weather should be great (equivalent of June in Georgia), and we'll be keeping you all posted via these blogs--hopefully with some pretty good photos as well. (And don't worry--as the South African Tourist Board says, "There have been more cases of ebola in the Unites States than in South Africa!")
Brad and Callie return to Florida on December 20, but we will board a cruise ship in Cape Town and sail east for 62 days--up part of the coast of east Africa, across the Indian Ocean, then threading the needle between southeast Asia and the myriad archipelagos that make up the masses of island and peninsular nations, north of Australia and south of the Indian/Chinese subcontinent. We'll add to this blog when we can, but things will be spotty during the first three weeks in South Africa. Stay tuned...
