HOW IT ALL BEGAN - THEN

AAHHHH - the summer of '72. We were the girls from Beaver Street - can you stand it ? Twinkle is the top left - I am next to her. We were living in Tahoe and doing whatever work we could find. Twinkle and I babysat for families for some local resorts - once we lost the kid . HEY!! it wasn't our fault ...that one had a history of running away !! Twinkle taught sailing - I would test her on the "How to Sail" manual on the way to the beach. We ran the regatta every Sunday at the yacht club......we would hoist the flags - blow the fog horn - start the races and then strip down to our bikinis and drink G and T's on the end of the pier until they started coming in. It was a GREAT summer ! We could never have imagined that 35 years later we would be completing her villa in Anguilla and planning our next great adventure...... to Africa. Life is Good !

Mary

HOW IT ALL BEGAN--THIS TIME

It all began with Carrolle (not pictured). She planted a bug in our ears to accompany her on a bi-annual trip to South Africa. In this photo - while enjoying the sunset and post sunset required libations at Elvis's bar in Anguilla, we began to ruminate over the possibility of such a trip. Now this is no ordinary trip, but one full of history, art, food, wine, waterfalls, lions, and tigers, and elephants; OH MY! That was three years and several ailments ago. Yet here we are trying to organize the packing, trying to figure out when to start our Malaria prophylaxes, trying to find any extra hidden cash, trying to decide which lotions and potions to put in 3oz. bottles, trying to decide what we really don't need- hairdryer? I mean who will I run into that will see me again, deodorant? well it is winter time over there, vitamins? surely my body can do without for 3 weeks, face and eye cream? hmmm better keep that in.
All in all it is a daunting project. I'm in charge of photography so I have lots of electronics and equipment that will replace basic necessities.

Gotta run, but will return with more info on the packing which I usually leave 'til the morning of......

Twinkle