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Last year, Eddie and I were invited to join a Ragnar team and as much as we wanted to do so, we were just way to busy.I had heard about another team forming this year, emailed the team captain and secured one of the last spots. Eddie decided against it, as we were doing a 70.3 one week later.Before I go any further, let me explain what Ragnar is. Ragnar is a relay that is put on in several parts

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Ahh...so, much to my dismay, I am learning that life does go on after Africa and it's time to get back to the blog. After all, the whole point of this "endeavor" is to try to be a little more open. The African adventure was just to be the beginning.Ive been fortunate enough to do a nice amount of travelling and see some amazing places but, Ive had a hard time "getting over" Africa. Ive been

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We found out about Islands of Siankaba via some friends who visited last year. They had told us about the school there and about how the kids at the school could really use some basic school supplies, especially notebooks. I knew immediately that we would be taking notebooks. As we got closer to our departure date, I asked friends to donate notebooks. I had no idea I would get such a strong

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We were picked up from our hotel by a company called “Bushtracks” for our Livingstone Island/Victoria Falls trip. It was a 45 minute drive and the highlight of it was when the driver, after finding out we were from California, asked us “who’s next after the Governator?”We were dropped off at a hotel that was a 5 minute boat ride away from Livingstone island. The falls are low this time of year,

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Our last day in Mozambique was very relaxing. We hung out by the beach and pool and did some reading and sleeping.The village in Mozambique is a fishing village. The men go out on their dow boats and fish from the boats, or get out with nets on the sand bars. When their boats are full, they come in, leave their catch in baskets on the beach and then the women come out, collect the fish and carry

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We arrived in Mozambique a few nights ago. From Kruger, we flew on an 18 person plane for about 1.5 hours, to Vilanculous. From there, we were supposed to be transferred by boat to the island of Benguerra. Because of weather and much to my dismay, we were told we would be making the trip by small plane. It really wasn´t that bad. It was only 10 minutes and the view was amazing! We landed on a

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On our last full day, our morning game drive started out with a great sighting. A pride of lion had stolen a kill from a leopard and was enjoying it on an open field. There were four lioness and two male lions. We pulled up to a lioness savoring the last few pieces of her share of the small impala. We could here her tearing into the bone and ripping off the meat. Another lioness had finished her

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DAY 1Leopard Hills was the last stop on safari for us. Our first night there, there were only eight of us and we all hit it off pretty quickly. We had some lunch and before heading out on safari, I had to try this outdoor shower. When else do you get to shower, outdoors, in the African bush?! It was really nice. I looked out to the watering hole and there were a few Kudoo, just staring at me with

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Internet is a nightmare, so I am going to include the last few days into one blog.Our last evening game drive at King’s camp was Friday night and it was an adventurous one. There was rumor that lions were in the area, so we spent the first hour and a half trying to find them. It was amazing to watch the trackers work. At one point, our tracker and guide parked the vehicle, grabbed theriffle and

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One of the rules of the King's Camp lodge is that you can not walk anywhere alone after dark. Creepy-right? The lodge itself has a low, surrounding electric fence, but that is only intended to keep elephants out as they trample and destroy everything in their path. There is one leopard who likes to come into camp every once in a while to see whats going on. There are also baboons and impala that

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!Once again, im very behind on blogging. Internet has been hit or miss. I actually, so have a lot of blogs on our laptop, but the only internet access we have now, is the one computer at our lodge. As we expected, because we are in the bush!!!We left Cape Town today feeling like we could use one more day there. What a fantastic city! We flew 2.5 hours to Nelspruit where we

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okay- so we owe everyone lots of info and there is so much to share and it was so amazing, I need to slow down to give the experience justice. I the mean time, Ill tell you about today. Cape Town is fantastic! It's like San Diego on steroids. It's about double the population and...I hate to say this, but it is, at least, twice as beautiful. It's stunning! We started our day with a trip up to

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We arrived in Zambia a few days ago. We have no internet service, so I have been blogging in a word document, so I can paste it into the blog as soon as we have internet again. After spending about 30 hours in London, we flew to Johannesburg to catch our connecting flight to Zambia. I’m not a very comfortable flyer. Sometimes I’m okay and sometimes, I’m a mess. I was perfectly fine on our flight

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Hello! We just made it into Cape Town today! We have just spent three days in Zambia...with no phones, no internet, no T.V. and it was fantastic! So...we are obviously behind on our posts. I am in the process of the Zambia post and I must warn you now that it is long. We have travelled to manyplaces, but I will tell you now that Livingstone, Zambia is the most amazing place I have ever

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We are relaxing in the B.A. lounge at Heathrow after our 24 hour whirlwind in London. This was my first time here and I loved it! Eddie and I have already decided that we must come back, as we only scratched the surface on this trip.We got in yesterday morning at around 10:00 a.m. We made it through customs with our personal belongings as well as two, 40ish pound boxes of notebooks, pencils and

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Sooo...we are sitting in the B.A. lounge at LAX awaiting our flight to London. How did this trip get here so fast???The past few days have been hectic and friends have definitely noticed the stress on my face. True to form, I procrastinated on many things, including packing. We were up well past midinight just trying to get everything in order. We have some significant weight and luggage

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Wow! I just started this thing and I'm already behind on posts! Eddie and I celebrated our three year anniversary on the 21st! I can't believe how quickly three years has come and gone. As our anniversary approached, I started looking for the gifts you are supposed to exchange on your third anniversary. The traditional gift is leather and the modern gift is crystal. Totally different ideas with

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I've been toying with the idea of creating a blog before our trip to Africa and have finally come to the decision that it would be a great way to keep friends and family updated on our much anticipated adventure. Im still learning the blogging ropes, so bear with me for these first few entries.I thought today would be a good day to start as we are exactly one month from our departure and we have

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