Wendy, I voted not to have any preference to ROARers; it just seemed right. Now, I am having second thoughts. Priority only means something if there is a scarce resource. Having priority on selecting which suite or which camp is not that important. What is the worst that can happen if I can’t get into Leopard Hills and “have” to go back to Singita. :D However, priority is really important when it comes to group size. We sort of have a limit of around 34 total. That limitation is at Madikwe, not at Leopard Hills/Singita. When we left ROAR, many of us talked of the ROAR reunion in 2008. Now, what happens if one of the ROARers happens to be out of town, in the hospital, or just has a broken computer and all 34 slots disappear? Who should be on the waitlist? After all, for ROAR, there were people that were on the waitlist that never made the trip.

As for camp preference, since we are going to be split up at Hermanus, Sabi Sands, and Madikwe, there is going to be no time that the whole group will be lodging together. It would be sort of nice to be discussing which camp, which land rover, and which pre-safari among ourselves before having to enter a feeding frenzy just formed out of fear that a trip two and half years away will be booked complete in a matter of hours. I now think it would have been nice to start with a ROAR reunion first (I am sure many ROARers will not be going again) and then expand. The only way I know to be totally fair would be to have a lottery. Lacking that, there is going to be some priority scheme. Currently, the scheme is who is on their computer today with access to a fax machine. I think initial priority to ROARers with significant advance notice to all might work better.