The Passionate Traveler

When will we be able to fly again?  Another year has come and done and I have not set foot on a plane again. Last time I was on a plane I was rushing back to get into South Africa before the world shut done in March 2020. I was on a trip to Brazil and Kenya and even while in Brazil, a few of the meetings were canceled because of the virus. By the time I got to Kenya, all of the meetings, but one, had already been cancelled, so I cut my trip short by four days and rushed to get back home. It is times like this that you need the help of your trusted travel agent (Jessica Cameron). She manged to get my flights changed and get me home. There were already people (mostly from Europe) who were stuck in Kenya and could not get flights back to Europe. Travel and the world would not be the same, at least for the next two years.    Flying on Business class to Brazil - the only way to fly!   Road side stall in Kenya   Road side photos in Kenya My last flight before lockdown...

Diving in the Red Sea At the start of 2021, it was decided to sort through the mountains of boxes we have stored in out garage. Quite a few of these boxes are slides. Both my wife - Marie - and I are keen photographers and before the age of digital photography, we used to take slides. Many of the overseas trip photos are on slides. So now, the question is, what do you do with hundreds and hundreds of slides? They take up space - even when you remove them from the magazines and pack them into boxes. Now you have boxes of slides which are very difficult to look at. Quite some time ago, I bought a slide scanner and started to scan the slides into a digital format. This was a mission all of it its own. It would have taken the best part of 100 years to get all of the slides scanned! It was very, very slow and every spect of dust on the slide was also scanned in. There is now an App which you can get for the iPhone called -"Slidescan". The App is set up to make use of the backlig...