Heading home – 6/3/2026 and 6/4/2026

Our journey home included a flight on Airlink back to Johannesburg, then we picked up some luggage that we had left at the JNB airport so that we didn’t have to carry it to Zimbabwe. We then had a long…
Collect Memories, Not things
Collect Memories, Not things

Our journey home included a flight on Airlink back to Johannesburg, then we picked up some luggage that we had left at the JNB airport so that we didn’t have to carry it to Zimbabwe. We then had a long…

Today we met Thembie and our driver to go to Victoria falls with a subset of our group. Some of the group had gone to additional game drives in Chobe but we decided to just do the falls and then…

Today we departed our hotel in Johannesburg to the airport for a flight to Zimbabwe., We lost a few people from our group but 8 of us continued on. We took a small local airline easyjet to Zimbabwe but the…

We had one finalmorning game drive this morning before a long drive back to Johannesburg where we will spend the night before a smaller group of us will continue on to Zimbabwe and Victoria Falls. We were lucky enough to…

We had a couple of drives today, a morning and an afternoon one with lunch in the middle back at camp. We got awake up call early in the morning after the guides had walked through camp to make sure…

Today we drove from Kruger to Karongwe to do additional game drives. We checked into our “tents” which were elevated on platforms, and had wooden floors, full bathrooms, a nice porch and a sizeable bedroom. You really couldn’t have asked…

I’m combining all of the photos from Kruger into one blog post because they all run together after the fact. Wildebeaast Crocodile Lion Lion Wildebeast Ostrich Ostrich Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Impala Impala Giraffe Impala Helmeted Guineafowl Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe Giraffe…

Today we drove from Johannesburg to Kruger, we had several stops along the way and one of those was a rest area that had quite a few animals in fenced fields beyond the shops and far off into the distance.…
We flew overnight to South Africa and were met at the airport by a porter from the hotel who drive us to the hotel. We didn’t do much today except meet our group who we would travel with to Kruger…

Thankfully Conrad woke up this morning with no fever, a dramatically improved cough and feeling much better. We will continue to rest in the room today and make sure that he’s feeling better before we head to the airport for…
Unfortunately Conrad woke up feeling even worse this morning and with a high fever. We reached out to Steph and she suggested taking the antibiotics that we had with us because it was starting to sound like it was progressing…

We arrived at the Singapore Airport and had a message from the Marina Bay Sands hotel that their representative would meet us just outside of baggage claim and telling us what gate our luggage would be on. Our bags had…