With Camille in Alaska, July 2002
posted by Dale Savage at 7:54 PM
Friday, October 07, 2005
States I've visited are in red.
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States I've visited are in red.
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4 Comments:
HI Dale,
I've been off doing life...not
paying any attention to my
blog...but did check my Family
Matters and you'd left your post!
YEAH!!!! I meant to mention it on CJ's
site just hadn't got to it yet!!!
I just finished a slide show of 180
slides of my parents from the 40's
and put it to music for my brother and
sister!!! They were blubbering with
appreciation...these were a few of the photos
in the show!! I used music from the sound-
track of Sleepless in Seattle...great old timey
music...it was really fun to do. I'm a bit tech
challenged, but determined to get up to speed
on a few things and making movies and slide
shows seems like a great creative outlet!!!
Anyway per your ???
I'm going to Libya!!! To see the fantastic
Greek and Roman sites on the Mediterranean
and then spend 6 days camping and hiking
in the Sahara looking for 12,000 year old rock
art in the Jebel Acacus mountains. Archaelogy
and especially petroglyphs and pictographs
are my passion, so seeing some of the magnifi-
cent African sites is a dream. The best are in
South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, but there
are great sites in Algeria also, but going there
is a bit iffy. Libya just opened to tourism in
2004, and is still lacking in infrastructure but
catching up fast. It's a short trip, I can't be gone
long from Carson. When he gets a bit older
I'll see the rest of Africa. There is a great train
ride through the south of the continent, that
I'm planning on taking with a group of friends
that I met on one of my other trips. We try to
do one or two trips a year, to off the wall
places. Our last was to Burma, where we took
protein powder and vitamins and clothes in
to the hilltribe people, under the radar of the
military govt. It was humanitarian work com-
bined with seeing the magnificent Buddhist
temples and pagodas.
So that's my LIFE!!!
And Carson, who I'm taking to a convention
of online gamers right before Halloween in
L.A., kind of like a trekkies convention, It
should be a trip to see all the costumes!!!
And we have tickets to see the King Tut
exhibit...something educational too!!!
Cheers Dale
Love your recipes!!!
Sunni
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Hi Sunni,
That's so cool about your slide show for your brother and sister! I have a box of photos that I want to scan for my sisters of old family photos of my mom and dad's.
I did something similar for both of my older kids upon their graduation. The group I used to work with would honor the high school graduates every year. Each graduate would get to set up and decorate a table displaying whatever they chose from their life in our auditorium.
Then one part of the evening's festivities would be a slideshow prepared by the parents of that child's life to date. I did self running powerpoint shows set to music for both of the older ones. The music for Camille's was the theme music from the original Star Wars, and Carissa's was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I no longer work with the same group, but will probably do one for Christina when she graduates this spring, as well. The only problem... we didn't take as many pictures of her! Sigh.
The Libya trip sounds really exciting. Would you believe when I was a wee thing, I thought I would like to be either a paleontologist or and archaeologist! LOL... In fact, I took a few courses in each in college and graduate school, but I've been on a dig. My fieldwork always involved living peoples.
I would love to visit Africa someday. I've never set foot on the continent. I've read a little bit about some of the sites you are probably thinking of in southern Africa over the years. They sound fascinating.
Have you ever visited any of the petroglyph sites here in AZ?
I'm a little bit aware too of why one has to do things under the radar in Burma. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law worked for a time in Chiang Mai, Thailand along with some other former colleagues who were using that as a base for some under the radar linguistic and translation work across the border with the Burmese hilltribes.
Ahhhhh... Envy's not a pretty thing! Nearly green here concerning your LA trip later this month. I was actually planning to travel over for the King Tut exhibit this past summer, but Christina needed two spinal surgeries in June. So that pretty much shot any chance to travel out of town that I had until just recently.
I've heard the collection that is here now is even better than the one that was here about 20-25 years ago (which I just barely missed seeing in Seattle!) LOL
I'm sure you and Carson will have a wonderful time.
Good chatting with you. I always enjoy your "Sunni" attitude. ;)
Dale
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