NEXT TRIP: SUWANNEE RIVER yep! as in "Way Down Upon The..." Plans are underway for our next expedition - a little closer to home this time, but equally as exciting and a bit more self reliant than the backpacking thru Egypt: Bill Collins, Bill Bates and Steav are planning on solo canoeing the entire Suwannee River from Fargo GA to the Gulf of Mexico in Spring 2010. 225 miles of paddling in about 14 - 20 days (haven't got the itinerary planned out ye...

YOU CAN'T TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A SCORE CARD! Not everyone who reads this little blogsite will know everyone who is involved in this journey, so before we all depart (T minus 3, 2, or 1 days depending on who you are) we thought it would be good to give all of our intrepid readers a little bit of background on who's who. Speaking of which, if you click on the PHOTO ALBUM (somewhere on this page) and choose the "Who's Who" album, you get to see everyo...

OK! ok! ok! We never posted the DATES of when we will be gone... oops! And, of course, all of our friends have reminded us of that glaring error. We leave January 3 and arrive back January 22. Due to the splendid connections that modern airlines now offer, we fly from Charlotte to Detroit... (Detroit?) and from thence to Amsterdam with a 9 hr layover (not a bad thing - we'll pop into town and see if it's likely to be our next travel visit!) and then to Cairo, ar...

Six weeks to go... Quite a few things have changed since the original plans, all for the better. We have 2 additional traveling companions: Lisa and Bill Collins will be meeting us in Cairo, traveling with us thru Egypt and then heading for Morocco after we leave. Very cool to have them going! Lisa just graduated from college and this is a part of her grad prezzy. Nice present =) We are, of course, adding and subtracting things from our packing lists... and we a...