KRUGER PARK GRAMPA TRACKS AN ELEPHANT A VIDEO 1989
Before I jump into New Zealand, I wanted to post a few videos of our time in Africa. They were shot wherever we journeyed and are 30 years old. They started on original VHS tapes, and over the years were…
ANOTHER GUEST POST AND THIS TIME JERED HITS IT OUT!
Just when I thought I was safe after the coup attempt by the previous guest author (pair), another guest has popped up to join the literary world and dropped another jewel on me. Geezus will it never stop. Could it…
NEW!! NEW! THEME CHANGE, WHATDYA THINK?
I have just finished redesigning this blog. I must say I was very timid about stepping away from the first and only one I had ever built. And then into something new. It was way out of my comfort zone.…
JMW MEETS THE H…Ds (editors note: and boy was he underwhelmed)
Let’s go back to September 2011. At this time, I was living in a town called O’Fallon in Illinois. It’s a smallish town about 16 miles east of the Illinois-Missouri border and the city of St. Louis. Veronica and I…
WITH MEMORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA LOCKED IN MY BLOG WE NOW DEPART (ADIOS)
I have spent a long time reaching into the depths of this old mind, in order to set in print some of my remaining memories of South Africa. I have truly enjoyed digging out memories, some of which have been…
WOW A NEW POST BY A GUEST AUTHOR PAIR, HAS CLIMBED TO THE TOP
An amazing thing has happened! For the past three weeks I have been asking readers to add their own article(s) to this blog. At the outset, Deysi added a test article that immediately became very popular. Since that time there…
LOST IMAGES OF AFRICA FROM 1989-90 HAVE RESURFACED
Yesterday, I was searching thru an old box in the garage, when I came across a packet of unsent post cards that dated back to the 1980’s. There were quite a few and in some cases multiple copies of the…
2018 – A DISNEYLAND ODYSSEY (NEW! NEW! GUEST POST!)
Ahhh, 2018. The year that Ange’s wildest dreams came true and Ron agreed to go to Disneyland with her. It’s like good ol’ Walt always said; “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”.…
ONE LAST POST OF OUR VISITORS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1989-1990
I am about ready to leave South Africa and venture on to our next stop in this journey. I cannot leave, however, without first posting some pictures of our visitors and some of the places that they found themselves in,…
GREAT FOOD EXPERIENCES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Since starting my travels in Peru, I have dedicated myself to eating as many different foods and trying as many different tastes as I possibly could. South Africa was no different. Here, I set about experiencing as many new, strange…
