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Final drive- H9 to Phalaborwa Gate via Sable Hide. Shoestrings Airport Lodge. It seemed like we saw more elephants from Letaba to Phalaborwa than the rest of the park combined. One group had over fifty pachyderms! And it was there I spotted (pun intended) our very first leopard. I was in shock; I couldn’t even speak. […]
Read MoreDrive 1- Satara H1-3 to H6 to S41. S90 to S89 to H1-5 to S91/S92 to Olifants Camp, then S44, S93, S46, and S94 to Letaba. Drive 2- Night drive Letaba S69 loop to S95 loop, back to Letaba. Letaba campground. We weren’t wasting our time on S100 again, so we took the tar road […]
Read MoreDrive 1- Satara S100 to S41, Sweni Hide, H6 to Satara. Drive 2- Satara H7 to S36 to S126 to H1-3, H6 to Sonop waterhole, H6 back to Satara. Satara campground. Every day in Kruger is better than the last. Every morning is so exciting and beautiful, every day is hot and lazy, every evening […]
Read MoreDrive 1- Skukuza H1-2 to H1-3 to Satara. Drive 2- Satara H7 to S40 to Girivana Dam and back. Drive 3- Night drive Satara H1-3 to Shisshangani waterhole, H1-3 to Sweni River and back. Satara campground. Night drives go from 20:00-22:00+ and let me tell you what, mister- it was real tough getting up the […]
Read MoreDrive 1- H3 to Biyamiti Loop to S114 to H2-2, then H3 to Skukuza. Drive 2- Lake Panic Hide. Drive 3- Night drive H11 to S1 to S65 and back to Skukuza. Skukuza campground. I was dreaming about zombies when I woke up just before the alarm. Greg went to the bathroom and I laid […]
Read MoreDrive 1- Crocodile Bridge to hippo pools, H4-2 to Mativuhlungu Loop to Lower Sabie. Drive 2- Lower Sabie to S29 to S122 to H10 to Lower Sabie. Drive 3- Lower Sabie H4-1 to N’watimhiri causeway and back. Night 1- Lower Sabie campground. Our first drive in the park was like living The Lion King. I […]
Read MoreSince G and I fly standby it’s dern-near impossible to make any travel plans beforehand, other than maybe some lodging with flexible, last minute cancellation policies. Before this trip we only booked a hotel for two nights after we were hoping to get into Johannesburg (and cancelled and rebooked at least three times due to […]
Read MoreThe thing about Christmas markets is that they just make you thirsty… for more Christmas markets. We wanted to take a little European road trip so we flew from Tallinn to Frankfurt and rented a car to take us to the best markets in the world- Germany’s Christkindlmarkts. Greg did his research and chose Cologne […]
Read MoreTake-off to touchdown, Tallinn is a 27 minute flight from Helsinski. I had read about Tallinn’s lovely Christmas market in its Old Town, and since we happened to be in the neighborhood, and since Finnair and consequently Fly.be partner with Greg’s airline, we made the short trip across the pond. The only thing we had […]
Read MoreWhat goes north must eventually go back south, most unfortunately. I fell head over heels for our little log cabin and it pained me very much to hand the keys over the morning we checked out of it. We could not have asked for a better vacation than a cabin in Finland- it’s just right […]
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