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Planning the next adventure!
Remember the Little Black Ball?The one from this story?Go ahead, click the link, the part with the ball is under “Digression”, but if you have the time I encourage you to read the whole story (and the 2 follow-up stories, it was a very long trip).After more than 3 years, in September 2025, the story…
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Nothing like the cartoon
I had to get tested at the airport. The website said it cost 30€ so I gave the lady 40. It turned out they changed it to 15€ for the quick test but the lady took both 20’s and gave me change for 25 in Ariary. At a terrible rate, of course. I protested and…
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Paradise Island
The plane to Johannesburg was a small one, as you would expect from a budget airline. But it had AC. The airport didn’t so this was a nice change. And I had a window seat so yay. 🙂 Why are clouds white if water is clear? I remember thinking I’d google it when I’m online…
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It began in Africa-ca-ca-ca
I’m taking you to South Africa.-I will father your children!I never did father her children, but we did go to South Africa. 🙂 The gamble We drove to Zagreb, to the airport, stopping along the way to jump around in the snow like little children. It was February. Getting the visa was a bit of a hassle, we had to…
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Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia…
Let’s see Russia.-What part of it?All of it! Ok, there’s a little poetic exaggeration, you can’t really see all of Russia in one lifetime, let alone one month, but we did see a lot of it. And some extra treats.There was murder and gulags and mountains and rivers and radiation and robbers and monuments and…
Adventure Imminent 