So we are trying something different. Leaving our beloved Africa and traveling abroad for almost 7 weeks to the USA, Cuba and London.
Last year with retirement looming we got 10 year visas for the US and UK. We hadn’t planned to use them so soon as we were looking at a trip to either Rwandan or Gabon to do the gorillas (this trip is top of Gray’s bucket list). However, our great friends Jean and Wayne Diesel, who presently live in Miami, may be relocating back to the UK in the next year or so, this was a good time to catch up and travel around the US and Cuba with them.
We left 3 unhappy adult children, who felt it rather unfair that we were traveling without them. Really!!! At 28 Gareth has just had a 6 month break and travelled around South America. He has just started a new job at Marble. Kirst, at 25 is taking a gap year and has travelled Europe, road tripped South Africa and will have left on a trip to Italy and Croatia before we return. Robs, now 21, is busy with her honours thesis and is really bleak about missing Cuba.
It was strange getting ready for this trip, a few visits to the travel agent and packing a bag. No jabs for life threatening diseases, no packing the Discovery with food, auto emergency equipment, camping paraphernalia and maps.
Last year with retirement looming we got 10 year visas for the US and UK. We hadn’t planned to use them so soon as we were looking at a trip to either Rwandan or Gabon to do the gorillas (this trip is top of Gray’s bucket list). However, our great friends Jean and Wayne Diesel, who presently live in Miami, may be relocating back to the UK in the next year or so, this was a good time to catch up and travel around the US and Cuba with them.
We left 3 unhappy adult children, who felt it rather unfair that we were traveling without them. Really!!! At 28 Gareth has just had a 6 month break and travelled around South America. He has just started a new job at Marble. Kirst, at 25 is taking a gap year and has travelled Europe, road tripped South Africa and will have left on a trip to Italy and Croatia before we return. Robs, now 21, is busy with her honours thesis and is really bleak about missing Cuba.
It was strange getting ready for this trip, a few visits to the travel agent and packing a bag. No jabs for life threatening diseases, no packing the Discovery with food, auto emergency equipment, camping paraphernalia and maps.
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