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Welcome to our site! We are retired explorers, passionate about travel and photography. Whether cruising the high seas or journeying by land, we love to discover and capture the beauty of new places. Join us on our journey.
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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 layover until we took off on a British Airways flight to London Heathrow. Once there we had a long layover so we booked the Sofitel hotel at the airport so that we could get a shower and a nap before heading on to BWI where we would get a car home. It was a long couple of days,


Victoria Falls - 6/2/2026
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 relax. Mark and Heather, another couple from our group came with us. We drove to the falls and stopped at a market by the falls that was run by a high school classmate of Thembie. The market owner provided us with ponchos to use at the falls. We later found that those ponchos were als


Johannesburg to Zimbabwe - 6/1/2026
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 plane was nice, and we were served a meal and full beverage service for a flight that was just under 90 minutes. In Zimbabwe we got a new CEO (head guide) named Thembie., She was local to the area ov Victoria falls and knew the area and lots of people. We checked into our h


Karongwe day 3 - 5/31/2026
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 find the leopards again and this time see a baby Leopard Leopard Leopard Leopard Baby Leopard Male Nyala Male Nyala Then our jeep had a flat tire, the second one in as many days and we were right beside a group of Zebra and Giraffe so we got some time to just
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