ANDY’S TRAVELS & RANTS

well,sometime you just get lucky, I was in the bazaar in Cairo Egypt, where the bomb went off, some thirty minutes after we left.  I guess life is like that just a series of twists and turns, and sometimes you are just lucky.Now I am in Luxor, and the security is everywhere, on the bus with us is an armed guard. there are security forces everywhere.  Karnac temple was not bad however, with a minimum of enforcement.lOn March 2 we are headed for the valley of the Kings, and  will see how things go.

making preparations for Egypt and Jordan”

Pictures of the Aussie trip are being posed, spent about a month in OZ

Booked the last of about 13 flights from US to OZ. Decided to take some time in Tazmania, New Zealand as well as Australia. We are looking forward to exploring Taz. looks like we will be there about a week. Final trip has us in Oz from Sept. 13, 08. to Oct 11. Hope at least there is a good movie or two on the flight. Also looking to buy a pocket computer to take with. After Africa, packing for Oz seem to easy. Looking for a diving class this summer to get my certification
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Looks like we are going to fly Quantis from LAX to HBA via MEL. Since we fly different airlines all the time, we never build enough miles to upgrade, and on Quantis, you cannot make seating reservations until you are at the airport check in. Most major carriers you can get seating assignments and check in on line. Not so with Quantis. All is done at the airport, since we are coming from the eastern US we will just fly in early to grab some good “steerage” seats. Our travels on this trip will take us to Tasmania, Australia and New Zealand. Plane ride will be a bit long as usual, hope that the AVOD will be in order, since the flight time from LAX is 15:15. I must make sure to bring some duck tape for my head so it doesn’t explode. Good price, but nothing like flying steerage.

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Finished the Africa trip, British Air was better than expected. We went to Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. We stayed in some nice lodges. Went on two games drives a day for about three weeks, needless to say we saw the big five plus many more. Loved flying the small bush planes, you can get a nice view of the delta when flying low. We also made it to the Cape of Good hope, the lowest point on the African continent, and since we also have been in Nordkapp, Norway, the highest point on the European continent it seemed like we did something, not sure what tho. We are now planning a trip to Australia and New Zealand. You can find the pictures at www.andrew-rabatin.org. If you have any questions on safaries or the photos just leave me a note.

andy

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This is a pic from the camp in kruger national park.

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complete a near a month in the southern regions of africa: Botswana, Zambia, South AFrica, and Zimbabwe. posted the pictures of the safari and the camp pics at www.andrew-rabatin.org. Great trip, saw the big 5, and visited most of the cape

well our flights on BA are made and we got seating we upgraded to world traveler plus on the way down and picked up some great seats in the front rows. We leave Oct 3 on BA 182 from nyc to lgw then its BA 57 from lgw to joh. there are several more in country flights that i will post later but we return on BA 54 on Oct 27 to lgw then BA 175 to jfk.

note as of Dec. 2007. Turned out BA was a good airline, no problem with seating, they changed and as of this writing y can get seat assignments and check in on line 24 hours before. We upgraded to econ + on board.

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needed to send my pp in and get a visa for zimbabwe. found that when i got it back due to regulations of the other countries that i also needed extra blank pages. so off again it went for the pages. the appointment with the travel doc is this week, i should be fine, having all my shots, but decided to double check and pick up the medications for the stomach