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| 4 AUG 2007 at 5:45pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Nice sunset - love it.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 3:38am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | You must have a good zoom on that camera !
I love the elephant sunset.
So tell us some of your impressions of where you went. etails, girl, we want details.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 7:32am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | That is some beautiful photographs.
A whole month in Africa. Cool! Probably not high on my place to visit list, but it certainly looks nice in piccies.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 12:19pm |
ValGuild Master
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Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Beautiful pictures!! What a wonderful trip it must have been!
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 1:12pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
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Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | Thanks! It was amazing... and it's been a lifelong dream of mine to go. I wrote a LONG boring blog about it, and these are a few photos from there... but it was amazing to see the people, animals, culture...
My overall impressions:
Chobe Park (Botswana): WOW, this is the place to go if you want to see animals. They let you get awfully close to them, and the guides are amazing.
Zimbabwe: An amazing country, wracked with horrifying poverty and economic troubles. But the people were so friendly, and outgoing and welcoming that seeing them suffer still makes my eyes wet.
Cape Town: Such a beautiful, multi-cultural place... and very welcoming and open. The city is gorgeous, and everything is so cheap.
Namibia: We only went to one park here, which was great, but not as prolific in animal sightings as Chobe. The people were very, very nice, but definitely more reserved than in Zimbabwe or Botswana.
Overall, if you are a bird watcher, or a photographer, a nature lover, or love plants/flowers... you MUST go to Africa... it was amazing...
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 5:50pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Wonderful pics Avatar,
My husband has been there several times over the past few years and seems to have very conflicting feelings about it. A beautiful but very troubled place.
Im hoping that in the not to distant future Ill be able to join him on some of the more "exotic" locations he visits for work, South Africa being one of them.
The pictures you took REALLY REALLY make me want to visit there.
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| 5 AUG 2007 at 11:48pm |
MissBSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Gorgeous pictures!!!
I'm so glad you got to go and had a good time! And welcome back!!
My name is Bethany and I'm the daughter of Gamergal/Michelle.
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 12:56am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Those are wonderful, Avatar! I especially love the hippo family. I like the sign, too. I knew there was always a reason for champagne.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 1:02am |
AvatarPrivate Detective
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Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | there is *always* a reason for champagne...
and thanks for the welcome back. :-)
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 1:13am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | I'm going to ask the question that's on eveyone's lips....
Dear Avatar, are you feeling better now? :-*
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 1:16am |
AvatarPrivate Detective
Posts : 661
Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | much better... life is finally moving forward in a good direction after many moons of ... well ... *not* good directions. i start a new job tomorrow (i'll be in training for a week, but i'll be back online after that), and have put in an offer on a new place to live that should be happening soon....
so far... so good...
thank you for asking....
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 6:49am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | You've had a rough trot. I'm so glad things are pulling together for you at last.
And it won't just be me that's happy about that. :-*
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| 6 AUG 2007 at 11:16am |
HelenGuild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Carolines right Avatar, its been a long rough road for you. Im glad to hear things are starting to come together.
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