USA | Sunday, 9 Jul 2017 | Views [350]
THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT MCCALL IDAHO that touched me when we passed through this small town on a beautiful lake in the Payette National Forest back in ’03, something that made me want to return. So we did.
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USA | Wednesday, 5 Jul 2017 | Views [519]
DESPITE THE “FAMOUS POTATOES” SLOGAN on the license plates, Idaho is known as the Gem State. There are plenty of potatoes, to be sure, plus wheat, alfalfa, soybeans and more. But you don’t have to be one of Van Gogh’... Read more >
USA | Friday, 30 Jun 2017 | Views [434]
IF WE HADN’T NOTICED THE SIGN, we wouldn’t have know we had entered Wyoming — there just isn’t much to distinguish it from northern Colorado, just a few more pronghorns. And Rawlins, where we spent the night doesn’... Read more >
USA | Monday, 26 Jun 2017 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Monday, 19 Jun 2017 | Views [375]
ROYAL GORGE AND ITS FAMOUS BRIDGE are mainstays of the tourist trade in Colorado. We had seen the bridge only from below as we rafted the Class IV rapids through the Gorge so we were immediately onboard when Tim and Candice invited us on a birding ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 15 May 2017 | Views [324]
LIKE THE BIRDS WE ARE SO FOND OF, now that we’re back from Cameroon, it’s once again time for our migration North. Unlike the birds we have no driving force to mate, nor will food be an issue. We have the luxury of taking it ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 2 May 2017 | Photo Gallery
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CAMEROON | Thursday, 20 Apr 2017 | Views [559]
AS THE SECOND PART OF THE TRIP (Rainforest and Rockfowl) started, things unraveled even more. Both Heinz and I had some sort of virus. I could — and did — remain behind and rest up but Heinz had to soldier on. Roger, from ... Read more >
CAMEROON | Monday, 10 Apr 2017 | Views [622]
WE BEGAN TO WONDER HOW MUCH THOUGHT RockJumper put into this trip. It’s been four years since Rock Jumper offered a trip to Cameroon — and the years haven’t been good ones for Cameroon. The French and English factions can’... Read more >
CAMEROON | Wednesday, 5 Apr 2017 | Photo Gallery
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CAMEROON | Tuesday, 4 Apr 2017 | Views [495]
OUR SOUTH AFRICAN GUIDES, David and Heinz, arrived yesterday afternoon along with Tom from San Jose, Marga from the Canary Islands, Quebecois Jean and Linda, and Johannes from Berlin. We spent some time birding around the hotel before our get ... Read more >
CAMEROON | Saturday, 1 Apr 2017 | Photo Gallery
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CAMEROON | Saturday, 1 Apr 2017 | Views [549]
SURPRISE — WE HAVE INTERNET FOR AT LEAST TONIGHT. So I'll take advantage of it. It took 34 hours to fly from Tampa to Douala via DC and Brussels, and another two hours to pass through immigration and collect our luggage. The ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017 | Views [429]
WE WERE A LITTLE CONCERNED WITH THE VISA PROCESS. Mailing our passports to a foreign embassy was way out of our comfort zone so using a visa service, expense be damned, was the only option. It took two full days to assemble all the documents;... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 26 Mar 2017 | Views [429]
ROD AND LOIS TOLD US ABOUT CIRCLE B BAR RANCH and their photographer friend John Young who likes it so much that he moved down from Massachusetts. Cirlce B gets rave reports from birders and our first visit made believers of us. So we arranged ... Read more >
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