by John Wordsworth | Apr 6, 2020 | Family History, Travel
Photo albums allow you to get a pretty good idea of the time they were taken, even if someone wasn’t labeling the photos with dates. You can tell the 1900 – 1950s photos since they’re black and white. The 1960s show the rough beginnings of colour film. The quality of...
by John Wordsworth | Nov 7, 2019 | Companions, Travel
I was reminded recently that I should mention our good friends for over 20 years, the Wilsons. Dee, Steve and the skinny guy Jacob. When we used to travel the Wilsons would look after our dogs. This includes our late boys, Gunner (our black lab) and Milo (a golden...
by John Wordsworth | Nov 5, 2019 | Travel, Uncategorized
Many anthropologists believe that the earliest traces of humans, in this case “Lucy” the hominin bones discovered dating back 3 million years, started in Africa. While Janet and my trip to Africa in 2012 didn’t quite take us that far back, we did get to experience...
by John Wordsworth | Aug 15, 2019 | Travel
I held a few photos back from the last blog to focus on elephants. They are truly magnificent animals, and Janet and I feel very blessed to have been able to ride them. We felt we were in the presence of greatness around these ‘gentle giants’. The first image shows...
by John Wordsworth | Jul 31, 2019 | Travel
Living in Canada I have the great fortune to be surrounded by an abundance of amazing scenery. Our country has high mountains, rocky coasts, grasslands that stretch to the horizon, and for many months of the year, infinite green vistas. In Ontario we are somewhat...
by John Wordsworth | Jul 29, 2019 | Travel
To end our South African adventure we spent two weeks in a private game reserve in Kapama Limpopo province. The reserve sits spectacularly on the banks of Klaserie and Kampa rivers and is surrounded by the majestic Drakersberg mountains. We rode elephants, we bush...
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