How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation. Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and baboons.
Worst trip was on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls where we saw a
couple hippo and listened to fascinating story of Livingston and we could
have heard on land, and spent more time looking for game and birds. Being
from the San Francisco area and having lots of seals and sea lions around
and Cape Fur Seal viewing trip in Cape Town was interesting, but not
exciting like a lot of the people thought. Other boat was to Robben Island
Cape Town and the tour by a former political prisoner. Trip was great, but
boat was just a catamaran ferry.

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:25:14 -0700, "Califbill" wrote:

How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation. Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and baboons.
Worst trip was on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls where we saw a
couple hippo and listened to fascinating story of Livingston and we could
have heard on land, and spent more time looking for game and birds. Being
from the San Francisco area and having lots of seals and sea lions around
and Cape Fur Seal viewing trip in Cape Town was interesting, but not
exciting like a lot of the people thought. Other boat was to Robben Island
Cape Town and the tour by a former political prisoner. Trip was great, but
boat was just a catamaran ferry.

Wow! Looks like a spectacular trip. Hope you'll share some photos with us.


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On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:25:14 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation.
Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and baboons.
Worst trip was on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls where we saw a
couple hippo and listened to fascinating story of Livingston and we could
have heard on land, and spent more time looking for game and birds. Being
from the San Francisco area and having lots of seals and sea lions around
and Cape Fur Seal viewing trip in Cape Town was interesting, but not
exciting like a lot of the people thought. Other boat was to Robben Island
Cape Town and the tour by a former political prisoner. Trip was great, but
boat was just a catamaran ferry.

Wow! Looks like a spectacular trip. Hope you'll share some photos with us.


Salmonbait

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Have to look at what picture sharing sites I still can use. Best is a video
of an elephant sneaking up on us to charge us. Female either pregnant or
PMS according to the guide.

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How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation. Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and baboons.
Worst trip was on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls where we saw a
couple hippo and listened to fascinating story of Livingston and we could
have heard on land, and spent more time looking for game and birds. Being
from the San Francisco area and having lots of seals and sea lions around
and Cape Fur Seal viewing trip in Cape Town was interesting, but not
exciting like a lot of the people thought. Other boat was to Robben Island
Cape Town and the tour by a former political prisoner. Trip was great, but
boat was just a catamaran ferry.

Wow, nice trip!

On Friday, March 22, 2013 10:34:50 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:25:14 -0700, "Califbill"

wrote:

How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation. Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and baboons.


Nothing that exotic but we got out Tuesday and we are going out
tonight. Just a little cruise down the river

Same here, got out last Sunday, but this weekend will be cool and rainy.

Very cool vacation, but I could never get my wife on a plane for that long of a flight.

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On Friday, March 22, 2013 10:34:50 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:25:14 -0700, "Califbill"

wrote:

How about you people? Took a couple boat trips on my latest vacation.
Best
trips were the Chobe River game viewing from Chobe Safari lodge
http://www.chobesafarilodge.com/ . Evening and morning trips. Saw lots
of
Hippos, elephants, and a pride of lions, as well as Nile Crocs and
baboons.


Nothing that exotic but we got out Tuesday and we are going out
tonight. Just a little cruise down the river

Same here, got out last Sunday, but this weekend will be cool and rainy.

Very cool vacation, but I could never get my wife on a plane for that long
of a flight.


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My wife used sleeping pills. Going we spent the night at Dulles and then
the 8500 mile trip with a stop in Dakar for an hour. Coming home was about
40 hours in airports and airplanes. Travel agent routing sucked. Cape town
to Johannesburg to Dakar to Washington DC to LAX to Oakland. And then 45
minutes filling out lost luggage claim. Did not make the plane in LAX,
delivered next day. 2 to 6 hour layovers along the way. About 12,000 miles
flying. Looking at the map, I would do it different if I went back. SFO to
GRU, then a few days then GRU to Jo'burg. Same return timing. Then you
only have an 8-10 hour flight with a nice break in the middle.

On 3/23/13 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:23:54 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

And then 45
minutes filling out lost luggage claim. Did not make the plane in LAX,

It is interesting that your bags made it half way around the world
without a hitch and got lost right down the road from you.

Great trip but I, also, would have trouble being on a plane that long.


In our first trip to Hawaii, before 9/11, we flew on a one stop from DC
to Minneapolis to Honolulu, and the only aspect that made it tolerable
was that we could walk around the plane and "gather" and stand around at
the rear of the cabin with the cabin attendants and talk with everyone.
We brought our own snacks and drinks and nobody gave a damn about it.
Hell, I brought a soft-sided cooler aboard.It was a pretty jolly flight.
Our second trip was a couple of years ago, and the flight was grim,
grim, grim because of the changes brought about by 9-11.

If we go again, it'll be with a stopover on the Left Coast, a night in a
hotel, and continuation the next day.

On 3/23/2013 11:12 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 3/23/13 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:23:54 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

And then 45
minutes filling out lost luggage claim. Did not make the plane in LAX,

It is interesting that your bags made it half way around the world
without a hitch and got lost right down the road from you.

Great trip but I, also, would have trouble being on a plane that long.


In our first trip to Hawaii, before 9/11, we flew on a one stop from DC
to Minneapolis to Honolulu, and the only aspect that made it tolerable
was that we could walk around the plane and "gather" and stand around at
the rear of the cabin with the cabin attendants and talk with everyone.
We brought our own snacks and drinks and nobody gave a damn about it.
Hell, I brought a soft-sided cooler aboard.It was a pretty jolly flight.
Our second trip was a couple of years ago, and the flight was grim,
grim, grim because of the changes brought about by 9-11.

If we go again, it'll be with a stopover on the Left Coast, a night in a
hotel, and continuation the next day.

Most people have sense enough to do that. Actually stopping over a few
nights in SF might even be better.

On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:12:00 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/23/13 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:23:54 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

And then 45
minutes filling out lost luggage claim. Did not make the plane in LAX,

It is interesting that your bags made it half way around the world
without a hitch and got lost right down the road from you.

Great trip but I, also, would have trouble being on a plane that long.


In our first trip to Hawaii, before 9/11, we flew on a one stop from DC
to Minneapolis to Honolulu, and the only aspect that made it tolerable
was that we could walk around the plane and "gather" and stand around at
the rear of the cabin with the cabin attendants and talk with everyone.
We brought our own snacks and drinks and nobody gave a damn about it.
Hell, I brought a soft-sided cooler aboard.It was a pretty jolly flight.
Our second trip was a couple of years ago, and the flight was grim,
grim, grim because of the changes brought about by 9-11.

Damn Christians!

Oh, wait, it was *Muslim* terrorists, wasn't it?


Salmonbait

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On 3/23/2013 3:06 PM, J Herring wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:12:00 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/23/13 11:05 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:23:54 -0700, "Califbill"
wrote:

And then 45
minutes filling out lost luggage claim. Did not make the plane in LAX,

It is interesting that your bags made it half way around the world
without a hitch and got lost right down the road from you.

Great trip but I, also, would have trouble being on a plane that long.


In our first trip to Hawaii, before 9/11, we flew on a one stop from DC
to Minneapolis to Honolulu, and the only aspect that made it tolerable
was that we could walk around the plane and "gather" and stand around at
the rear of the cabin with the cabin attendants and talk with everyone.
We brought our own snacks and drinks and nobody gave a damn about it.
Hell, I brought a soft-sided cooler aboard.It was a pretty jolly flight.
Our second trip was a couple of years ago, and the flight was grim,
grim, grim because of the changes brought about by 9-11.

Damn Christians!

Oh, wait, it was *Muslim* terrorists, wasn't it?


Salmonbait

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'Name-calling'...the liberals' last resort.

Can you imagine folks gathering around to chat with Krausie, on a plane?
Neither can I. ;-)