What can you say about person who encourages you to chase your dreams? Who says: What are you afraid of? Go for it! We’ll make it work! We’ll find a way! Well, I call that person, my wife. Over the many years that we’ve been together I’ve talked about traveling to Africa, ‘one day’. The other day I sent her a link to this post from David DuChemin’s web site. The post was called, Come to Africa with me. My first thought was, that’s the trip that I’ve been waiting for. What a hoot that would be! Then, the old voice kicked in: Well, it costs too much, you can do it later, blah, blah, blah.
I sent a link to my wife, she read it and said, so, how much of a deposit do you need? What’s the total cost? I told her that the price was in Canadian Dollars, $4650, and I wasn’t sure how much it was in USD. It turns out to be $3829 USD. Now, this is a great price because it includes everything except airfare. I mean, hotel, transportation, fees, food, safari outings, guides, etc. All told, the trip is from January 9 – 20, but things really start on the 11th, as the first 2 days are set aside from travel. It’s about 26 hours to get from Charlotte.
I’d have to go Charlotte, NC -> Atlanta, GA -> Amsterdam, Netherlands -> Nairobi, Kenya, total flight time, 22 hours, 30 minutes. By far my longest flight EVER, by about 12 hours. As it is going to be a long way, for just a week, I was wondering what other trouble I could get into, perhaps staying over a few extra days, at the end, in Amsterdam? Do any of you live there? Want me to drop by? Sorry, I don’t know my European geography at all!
If it hasn’t sold out already, I’ll be there. I have no idea about traveling such distances with my gear and keeping it safe. I guess that I’ll have to depend on David to answer those questions. I’m quite excited about this trip of a lifetime.
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