http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog Things that are possibly better left written down... Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:14:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just realized that we never finished blogging on our Africa trip. For those of you who don't know, yes, we didn't actually make it out of Africa. In the morning after our flight to Jo-burg, we woke up early to get back to the airport as we ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/the-final-chapter-finally/ When we finally got back to Antananarivo, we went straight to the Air Madagascar desk to see when we could get to Nairobi; we would try to get there as soon as possible. When we explained what had happened to the woman at the Air Mad desk in the airport she ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/back-to-mainland-africa/ We finally have a few moments to tell you of our interesting adventure in Maroantsetra. On Tuesday morning we awoke to moderately cloudy skies, but plenty of blue popping through. We went to the airport early in the morning as planned to catch our flight back to Antananarivo. ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/maroantsetra/ We had a very fun day in Tana. In the morning we confirmed our flights with Air Mad and then took a taxi (they are all Renualt 4s) to the top of Tana where the 200yr old palace, Rova, is located. Unfortunately the palace is under renovations due ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/antananarivo/ On Friday June 27, Sarah and I had a flight to Maroantsetra, which is in the northeast part of your map of Madagascar. For once our flight was uneventful. Actually the smaller twin prop airplane was nicer than most of the Air Canada planes I have been on.We arrived in ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/masoala-peninsula/ We have finally found another opportunity to use the internet. Internet access was far more difficult to find in Madagascar than we had anticipated. We are no longer in Madagascar, we arrived this afternoon to Nairobi, Kenya! Some of you know of our kaffufles with Air Madagascar ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/taxi-brousse/ We're now in Madagascar, and this posting is coming straight from Antananarivo, the capital of this interesting country. Since we last posted... Internet has been hard to come by. Between lack of availability and it being the national holidays this last couple (many things are closed), just haven't made it. ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/south-africa-to-madagascar/ Today is our third wedding anniversary and we had a great time. This morning we got up and purchased tickets for the ferry/tour to Robben Island, which is the island near Cape Town where Nelson Mandela spent 17 years in a prison. We then drove out to the Cape of ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/cape-of-good-hope-robben-island/ Hello from Cape Town. We arrived last night at about 7pm. After a bit of a kafuffle (ie forgot which rental car company we went through...) we managed to find our car and our hostel in Cape Town. The car is a VW Polo - we both think it's ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/cape-town/ We spent 2 days in Kruger National Park here in South Africa with Sarah's parents Dave and Donna. It was very cool, saw lots of wild animals including: leopard, elephant, zebra, rhino, hippo, and hundreds of impala. We're at the airport going to fly to Cape Town where ... http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/kruger-park/