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What a fabulous day!!
We enjoyed a full South African breakfast, prepared by Trevor, of fresh fruit salad, eggs with bacon, and warm croissants. Then Budget came and drove Milton back to their office in our new Mercedes C200, even though the plan was supposedly for them to bring […]

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Jet lag’s a strange thing — Milton was wide awake at 7:30, Wendy hadn’t fallen asleep until 1:30 and didn’t get up until after 9:00. Just to be safe, he brought her a bowl of fresh and stewed fruit, so she didn’t miss breakfast. While she was dining […]

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We were startled into awakedness by the clock/radio whose radio/alarm went off at 5:45am. We succeeded in shutting it off (a surprisingly difficult task), then finally fell back asleep with a vengeance. We slept through breakfast and awoke for real around 9:45. We then set off […]

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These 5mg ambiens just aren’t doing the trick; we awoke in time to have breakfast on the plane at 7:30am, or 2:30 am South America time. Were met at the airport and driven here for one of the longest stays of our whole trip — 4 days and […]

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We’d done all the outdoors activities we needed to yesterday, so this morning we just lolled around indoors. Checked out and found that instead of Irio, he’d sent his look-alike (though 5 years older) brother to drive us to the airport. Unfortunately, his car didn’t have air […]

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Finally, a nice night’s sleep, on our military-style mattresses. We went to their breakfast buffet, which, as usual, looked far better than it tasted. The fruit was juicy and flavorful, though.
We then went down to the lobby and met Irio, our taxi driver for the […]

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Had an awful night’s sleep as the air conditioner kept making rattling sounds like something stuck in your bicycle spokes; some imperfections even here in the Palace.
We rushed through the buffet of plenty (they had the salty lox today) and taxied over to the National airport. […]

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Ugh, up at 6:30; at least not much traffic en route to the airport at that hour, but damn chilly here at the southern end of the world. There was, however, a 25-minute line just to check in, then the power in the airport kept going out, […]