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Around the World

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Now that I’m home from our amazing journey to Africa etc., I’ve been reflecting on other travels and the meanings of those experiences. One major experience was in the summer when I was nineteen. I took a trip around the world. Really!  My big brother, Jerry, and his family were…

Postscript Africa

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We’re home. Our adventures are now in our dreams—visions of ocean, mountains and animals. I have a sense of unreality—being home, still somehow in transit. When we got Covid, we thought our adventures were over. But we recovered enough to venture out on our last couple days in Cape Town. …

Cape Town Visit 2

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South Africa is a new country—it was reborn in 1994, when its new democracy was born. In a way, its birth was a miracle. It came out of an horrific history where a white minority brutalized its citizens, whom they treated as non-citizens.  The brutality of this near history was…

Sightseeing in Cape Town

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When we scheduled our time in Cape Town, we wondered if we had allotted too much time—three weeks. Did we really need that much time? But after a week of being constantly on the go, we’re wondering—are we really going to see everything we want to see? We had just…

Botswana 2

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We’d just spent three days at Nxai Pan—a safari camp in the Kalahari Desert, in Botswana.  Now we were moving to two new safari camps—Splash and Lagoon.  The scenery is entirely different – unlike the dryness of the desert where water holes are rare, here water is everywhere – rivers…

Botswana 1

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Is this real? I can’t believe we’re really here. We were looking out on a line of elephants at a water hole on the edge of our camp – Nxai Pan, in the Kalahari Desert.  We had taken a very small propeller plane to get here—more than a little unnerving—with…

Petra

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Several years ago, I saw a program on public television about an amazing city carved into rock. I was intrigued and wondered if I would ever get to see this place: Petra, in Jordan. For a long time, however, I was wary of traveling to Jordan, especially because I’m a…

My Beautiful Sister

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My beautiful sister Nancy is about seven and a half years older than me—so she’s always been my big sister. Of course, over time, we’ve become more like peers—both married women, with families, so the age gap doesn’t matter so much. But, even so, there are certain things that she…

Creating Art

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During our six plus weeks in California, I nearly filled up my sketchpad. Sketching is what I do when I travel—and I love it. My travel sketching materials are portable—a small sketchpad, good quality watercolor pencils, and a brush that has water inside it. To create a sketch, all I…

Traveling with COVID

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We’ve come to Oceanside, CA, for an extended vacation—away from Minnesota’s ice, snow and extreme cold. We were here two years ago—just before our world turned upside down with Covid. We’re staying in the same building complex—right by the beach—lovely. It is the same but different. Last time, we met…
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