ROAR'ers - Pat and I are on board (on land??). In either case, we are already planning our Jungle Jim duds (Do we do dark or light khaki? What style hat works to cover a bad hair day? Can one wear an Australian cavalry hat in South Africa? Lordie, the questions are just endless, are they not?). Ken has promised to help us with our safari photos, so that our pictures of lions and giraffes don't look like photos of penguins and peacocks. The poor guy does not know what a challenge he has signed up to. Oh well, if it comes down to it, we will just borrow a few of his wonderful photos (a handy thing about digital photography, no?).

You're right, Marc. So what if this just sets retirement back a year or so? When I worry about such things, I just pull out my print-out of the marvelous LCT thread related to Work and Life Balance. That helps us justify taking some major pleasure now, rather than deferring things to the future which may not come to pass. And we also want to go on a photo safari before some of the gorgeous creatures become so endangered that we will have no chance of even glimpsing them.

Cheers, Fred