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Africa, Here I Come

Despite my words on the day itself, last Friday wasn’t _all_ bad. I did, after all, collect my tickets from the travel agent. _What tickets?_ Why, the tickets for my flying visit to South Africa, of course! _You must be joking!_ Certainly not! Just to prove it, here’s the ticket for the first leg of my journey: ==Airline ticket photo== And for the second leg: ==Airline ticket photo== That’s right, in mid-August, I will be spending a week in the Johannesburg-Pretoria area, visiting _her_, and doing, well, I’m not quite sure what we’ll be doing yet. We haven’t made any solid plans, so I guess we’ll see what happens. Of course, this means that I won’t be posting any weblog entries for the week that I am away, but I _will_ be keeping a diary of my African adventures, and bringing along my trusty digital camera — the ‘didge’ — to capture whatever sights intrigue me. To be honest, I’m rather nervous about the trip. It’s less than six weeks away now, so the gravity of the situation is starting to set in. For one thing, I haven’t even started to pack yet! But seriously, I will be really out of my element; a total fish out of water. Plus, I’ll be passing a number of significant milestones with this voyage: I’ve never travelled that far before; I’ve never been to the southern hemisphere; and I’ve never been to Africa. So I really don’t know what to expect. But that’s what life is for, isn’t it? The living.

Wed 09 Jul 2003 at 19:32   ·


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Wed 09 Jul 2003
at 21:17

re: July 4th. Well, it wouldn’t be a relationship without a semi-crisis evenry now and then, would it? Congrats

Posted by
dg 
Thu 10 Jul 2003
at 04:03

That’s awesome Mac. I hope you have a great time and document it well to share later!

Posted by
piglet 
Thu 10 Jul 2003
at 10:25

hey babe, congratulations :)
What a trip.. and what a lady :)

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You are reading Africa, Here I Come, a Macrolog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Uncategorised, and was published in July 2003.

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This day in history: 09 July


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