
While we have only 5 weeks left before we fly to Johannesburg, SA, we have plenty of things on the calender to keep us occupied in the meantime. I fly to Harrisburg on Sunday evening and will commence my last two weeks at Highmark in Camp Hill until I return after Thanksgiving -- assuming they still want me to return after we get back from SA, which currently they do. I fly home from Camp Hill on August 9 and on the 10th we're driving to Hot Springs, a little town beside the Appalachian Trail in the North Carolina mountains, where we're attending the
destination wedding of David Burke and Rachel Malone on the 11th (the groom is the guy I hiked on the AT with for 6 days in late April last year, and who finished the Trail in Maine in September). http://www.mountainmagnoliainn.com/ After the wedding we're spending 3 nights at a cabin in the mountains with the "newly weds" so we can do some hiking together,or just hang out, watch the birds, etc. http://www.ncvalley.com/-brokenarrow I can assure you all that David and Rachel invited us to join them, we didn't just invite ourselves! On Aug. 15 we plan to drive from North Carolina to Falls Church to spend a few more days with Melanie and David and baby Indigo, probably returning to MB on the 18th. Then we'll have just 10 days at home until we leave for SA on August 29.
We'll do another practice post soon, and give a few details of our South Africa travel plans.