I don't know what happened, but I have no photos of the falls. Either the camera or the laptop erased the data card. I'll have more photos tomorrow, but they'll be from the other side looking down, without a real view of the actual *falls*. Very sad.

I know at least one of my readers was concerned about my going to Zimbabwe, so just to reassure all is well, and they even have internet access here! I'll discuss how things seem here in another post in a couple of days. But: Victoria Falls. Wow. You hear them long before you see them. And the whole area is a rainforest because the water hits the ( Read more... )

Transitioning overnight from 16 hours of daytime per day to 10 hours is a dramatic shift.

New very pretty pictures going up now.

Just don't ask me if I've seen the southern cross. I don't know that I've seen the sky ( Read more... )

Why is it that, when I try to speak German, I constantly use words from Spanish for no good reason? "Wasser con gas" is not right. My brain just can't keep them separate. (I'm connecting in Frankfurt)

I'm sitting at Heathrow, getting ready to board my first flight and begin my travels to southern Africa. Looking back at the last month, it's rather dizzying. I can barely remember the choral festival that began it all! I'm going to try to work my way back through my time in the UK, making a calendar of sorts showing where I went and where I stayed ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since I last posted, and now I'm almost done here. It's Thursday evening, and on Saturday evening I'll be headed south to Africa, where I have another week of independent travel before meeting up with my group. I'm in Oxford now, desperately hoping that the room will cool off a bit before I need to get to sleep ( Read more... )

Question: Is Commander Pike better off in this new alternate-universe trek ( Read more... )

I'm in very dire straits for my cat, and I don't know what to do. Especially since I'm in Europe and not coming back for over a month. Anything you can offer would be appreciated, since I'm faced with having to get rid of him as the only option I can now see, and I would hate myself if I turned him to a shelter ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and drove a rental car for the day today. In part because I thought it would be more convenient, and in part because I wanted to see how it went, and also to decide whether I might want one for a few days towards the end of my trip. So today I went up to Hadrian's Wall, and I drove myself ( Read more... )