Mr. Bones

Sharing my breakfast with Penelope's dad's African Grey, Mr. Bones:

Pretoria

We visited Penn's sister Andi at her university in Pretoria. Beautiful campus:

And sunset:

The trip

For those curious, here is the planned itinerary by major city:

Pointe Noire (Congo)

Johannesburg (South Africa)

Pretoria

Durban

Port Elizabeth

Cape Town

Johannesburg

New York, NY (United States)

Los Angeles, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Sacramento, CA

San Francisco, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA

San Diego, CA

Escondido, CA

Albuquerque, NM

Tyler, TX

Louisville, KY

Lancaster, OH

Columbus, OH

New York , NY

Frankfurt (Germany)

Pointe Noire (Congo)

Believe it or not this is the reduced list with the notable deletions of London, England and Perth, Australia.

11 weeks.

A mix of fun and work.

Over 4000 km via car.

Over 18,000 miles via air. 

Pray for rest (and sanity). 

South Africa

For those of you who know about my trip, we made it to South Africa. For those of you who don't know about the trip, you do now. More details to follow but for now I'll leave you with a picture of Pointe Noire from our ascent earlier today:

If you look /very/ closely just above the winglet you can see the ship at the leftmost part of the harbor:

Pointe Noire harbor

Some days I'm amazed at where I get to live.