Africa
Travel Adventures to Africa
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Africa Pictures
I know that it’s been about 6 months since we came back from Africa but it occured to me that I hadn’t posted a link to the Africa pictures that I had posted on my web site. The pictures from the Africa trip can be…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Final
Serengeti If there is one park in Tanzania that is famous the world over it has to be the Serengeti National Park. The name Serengeti is almost synonymous with safari and there are few people who have not seen movies or television shows that are…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 4
Making Our Way To The Safari We arrived in the town of Arusha today where we will be starting our safari. I now use the word town to describe Arusha a bit loosely but I’ll get into that a bit later. We travelled quite…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 3
I have posted more pictures on my photo website here. Getting A Taste of South Africa Those of you who know me will know that it’s no surprise that the food that we eat on our Excellent Adventures is pretty important. I think that…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 2
London Calling London is one of those cities that you hear about all of your life and if you’re lucky enough to eventually go there you find that it really does live up to all of its expectations. That’s certainly what Barb and I thought…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 1
One of the most common things that I hear from people when we get a few days away from going on one of our Excellent Adventures is along the lines “you must be pretty used to going away on these trips”. True enough, there’s a…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 6
It hasn’t escaped me that it’s been 4 months since my last blog post. Without getting into too many excuses, there always seemed to be something else that had to be done and lately the blog has been taking a back seat. Nonetheless, there have…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 5
Since my last posting in January on the travel planning process for our Excellent African Adventure, a lot has happened. Most importantly, we decided that the political situation in Kenya wasn’t showing the improvements that we had hoped for and subsequently made the decision to…
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Africa Preview as Seen Locally
A trip out to the Fraser Valley yesterday all happened on the spur of the moment. I had suggested to Barb that we should get out of the house as I felt like taking some pictures outside in the sunny weather. Barb immediately suggested that…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 4: Turmoil in Kenya
The process of travel planning always involves all kinds of research and the discovery of new cultures and sights. Once we’ve decided on a destination, we start doing all of the specific research for the places within that destination that we may want to go…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 3
Under normal circumstances, with Christmas just over a week away Barb and I would be spending most of our energy getting ready for the holidays. It’s not that those Christmas things aren’t being done but today was a particularly productive day for our travel as…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 2
With all of the travel planning for our upcoming trip to Eastern Canada pretty much wrapped up, I should give you an update on our next big Adventure which is already in the planning stages. I had mentioned in my previous post on the subject…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 1
The point is not lost on me that I have barely made mention of our vacation for 2007 while I at the same time am posting the first “making of” article on an Excellent Adventure for 2008. In reality, it seems to be turning out…