Bakke's in Africa 2010

Lion over kill

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Sorry.

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I don't know why some of these photos don't show up. I will keep trying

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Graveys zebra

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This ia an endangered species of zebra

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Hippo pond

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You can be glad your computer doesn't have "smell vision"

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Hippo

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Mirabell gardens - Salzburg

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Maria Von Trapp studied at the place with the red dome.

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More of the wedding

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The Hohensalzburg fortress-Salzbur

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Old city Salzburg.

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Wedding this morning in St Johann this is the "bridle" party.

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The world is alive with the sound of music - Salzburg

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The Alps as seen from our hotel room. Marie is in awe.

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German vineyards taken from the train.

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Anne Frank house was a solemn experience what an amazing young women.

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A very cool night in a tent on the equator

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David, the young man we sponsor through Compassion. We met him on Monday in Nairobi. PTL

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Fish Eagle. Obviously like our Bald.

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Update

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Switched continents last night. Things could have gone a little smooter(ask Marie). Got to Amsterdam at 5:30 AM.
Busy day today. Did Anna frank house, canal tour, THE DISTRICT (now Marie believes what everyone has been telling her. Leave by Eurail at 8 aM for Austria.
We would love to get more comments from ya'all that look at the blog.

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Martial eagle

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Wildebeest migration

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Estimated population is 1 1/2 to 2 million, but who is counting

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Spotted hyena

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Elephants discussing who is in charge

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Remember my baboon encounter in 2008? These are my Heros that got my book back then. They remembered the whole ordeal.
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Recycling

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Only about half of what an elephant eats is digested. Natures plan.

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Samburu girls seeing themselves on the iPad

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Mom taxi

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At this point Marie wasn't sure the Africa trip was such a good idea.

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Lilac breasted roller

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Beauty, speed, and grace

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African wild dog. First time for us

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Samburu warriors seeing themselves on iPad for the first time :)

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The missing pictures. Sorry about that, thanks Diane for telling me. I will try again

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Saying goodbye to Africa

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We are back in Nairobi. We will be flying to Amsterdam tomorrow night. All is well. We have mixed emotions about leaving, but I am getting tired of living out of a suitcase.

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Samburu dancers

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Catching a ride on mom

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Wildebeest after crossing the Mara during migration

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Elephants

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Joseph

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Giraffe

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More leopard

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Samburu dancer

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Wild dog ~ a very special day

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Elephants

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More photos

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Internet

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Finally. We not only have Internet we have Wifi. It is the last nigh

In a camp. Tomorrow back to Nairobi and off on Monday morning..
We are planning to meet with our Compassion boy on Monday morning.
Everything has gone amazingly well. We have seen animal beyond belief.
The highlights have been the wildebeast migration, lots of cats(lions,leopards and cheetah) and maybe the best wild dogs for the first time. Our driver hadn't seen any for 11 years and Chuck who has been to Africa 11 times has never seen them.
Monday back to Amsterdam and then to Austria. It should be quite different. now will try to get some pictures posted. Cross your fingers.

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Location:Kenya

Sunday Sept 5

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All is well. We are spending 4 days at Fig Tree Lodge. Hippos and Baboons kept us awake last night but it was sweet music.

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Flying

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Leaving today. If everything goes according to the schedule we will be in the Mpls. airport by 1 PM and land in Nairobi at 7 PM Sept 3rd. their time.
But then, when is the last time you flew that everything went "according to plans",
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People of Kenya 2008

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On the way to school

Roadside conversations

Washing cloths.

Drying cloths

Red cloth and stick always present

Marie and some Samburo ladies

Blogging from an iPad

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Thanks to son Steve and help from John Thompson,and grandson Ander, I finally can blog from the iPad. This makes life much more simple .

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We are looking at you to join us in Africa!

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Looking for you

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Itenerary for 2010 trip

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Sept 2 Leave Mpls. Fly to Nairobi, Kenya by way of Amsterdam
Friday Sept 3: overnight in Nairobi
Sat. Sept 4 : Drive to Mara Fig Tree Lodge
Sun. Sept 5-7 Stay at Mara Fig Tree Lodge
Wed. Sep 8: Drive to Mara Keekorok Lodge
Wed Sept 8-Sat 11 at Leekorok Lodge
Sun. 12: Drive to Abedare stay overnight
Mon. 13: Drive to Samburu Lodge
13-17 in Samburu Lodge
Sat. Sept 18 drive to Sweetwater Lodge overnight there
Sun. Sept 19 drive to Nairobi overnight
Sun. Sept 20 fly to Amsterdam
Mon-Tues Sept 21-22 in Amsterdam
Tues Sept 22 Eurorail to St Johann in Austria
Sept 26 back to Amsterdam
Sept 27 fly back to Mpls

Most, if not all, of these lodges can be found on the internet via searching

THOUGHTS FROM THE THRONE

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It's time to do a post safari update. Thanks to all of you that have commented about the blog.
Things went well on our return. 3 days later something I brought back from Africa got to me. Hence the title of this blog. I think it is self explanitory.
After a visit to the ER and 7 days the alien has left my body. The state dept of health is still trying to figure out what I had. Each time a deadline is met they give a future date. Now it is suppose to be next Friday.

Now regarding the slide show. More will be added in a day or two.
Also, if you click on the "view all slides" you can enlarge and look at slides individually.

Thanks again for visiting us and the comments.

Check out my Slide Show!

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Pictures

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Double clicking on the pictures enlarges them.

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These guys rescued my book after the baboons were done with it..

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More photos

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WE HOME

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Every time we came back from a game drive one of our drivers would say "we home".
Well as of 3:30 this afternoon, "we home".

Hi to our African friends that may be looking on this site. Hope to hear from some of you.

I will try to add some more pictures now that we are home. I can't blame someone elses computor now.

Thank to those of you who kept in touch while we were gone and to those of you who tried and couldn't get the blog to work.

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SAFARI SO GOOD

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Happy birthday dear Anica Happy birthday Anica Happy birthday dear Anica Happy birthday to you.

Thanks all you blogger friends and family. We are back in Nairobi and we will be flying out tonight around 11 PM.
Back in Mpls around noon Tuesday. Thanks Steve for picking us up. I just checked the weather looks like we are going to have a cool welcome.

As we were leaving the resort this morning we got pictures of 2 more lions and 5 elephants on the road and 3 giraffes on the side. Quite a farewell.
The last resort didn't have a fence of any kind around it so last night as we were walked by the security we saw 2 hippos and a hyena in front of our room.
TThis morning there were a number of Impala in the same area.

Jana we met with annes mom today more about that later.

God Bless see you all soon. We are looking forward to getting back.

friday, feb 15

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hi from masai mara, an area in the very south of kenya, near tanzania. we are in a tent camp here for two days. we are camped rught next to the river and the baboons- yes, they followed lloyd here- and the hippos woke us up a number of times during the night. it rained very hard last night so the roads were exciting for the morning drive. grandpa saw micah's jackal today, plus lions, hyenas, serval cat, topi, reed buck, etc. we are moving tomorrow to alodge about an hours drive from here for the next two nights. we leave early monday morningfor nairobi. another story we will tell later is about the trip here. the roads are very rough- lloyd says that is an understatement. thanks for all the news from home. hope kayley is well now. Jana, glad your surgery news is better- can't wait to see the braces. steve, are you coming to pick us up? Friends- thanks for keeping us in your prayers.. It has been quite a journey!!!! P.S. Would somebody tell Lloyd how the BB teams are doing? Marie and Lloyd

SUNDAY BLOG

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Hi again. Tomorrow we leave this lodge that we have been at for 4 days. Each morning we do a game drive at 6; 30 AND then again at 4. Each lasts about 3 hours. This morning we watche a pride of 3 lions and later 2 cheetas. \later at the lodge we were sitting outside and about 50 baboons came through. I was taking pictures when one of them stole the book I got from the Hoffmans in 2000. I chased it as marie hollered at me. Two of the native dancers went into the bush and retrieved the torn book. A good time was had by all.
We are well and having lots of fun. Still appreciate the prayers. We will continue this the next chance we get.

Day 2 in Africa

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Well Allison we are trying to download a picture on the worlds slowest computor.
We are in Samburu Game Lodge for the next 4 days and it is great.
Today alone we have seen a herd of 45 elephants that walked in front of our vehicle, 5 lions, 4 of which were chased up a tree by water buffalo, and many other birds and animals.
Chuck got his dinner roll stolen from his plate by a monkey. Two monkeys freaked mom out when they were trying to get in our cabin.Thanks for the prayers keep them coming.
You are all doing a good job.
P.S. Downloading didn't work.

WE ARE HERE

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We arrived safely, not that there was any questions. Everything looks pretty normal here in Nairobi. There is a little higher security, but we like security.Last night we had to go through security check and metal detector just to get into the hotel.
So far Marie is impressed with this roughing Africa style in the Nairobi Hilton.
We are leaving in just a few minutes for our first camp.We are on schedule with what I posted earlier.
We met some wonderful people on the airplane that were returning to Kenya.
Clifford and Judy and 2 childred that are here to bury his mother.They have to go to the most difficult part of Kenya and were asking for prayers.
I don't know when our next update will be, but we hope for some pictures at that time.
Thanks for those of you who added to our blog. As for the rest of you lets get on the stick.

Africa Itinerary

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The state department is not being very encouraging, but we have gotten some good news from Kenya and the trip is still on. We will be leaving Mpls Monday at 3:30 P.M.

8+ hours to Amsterdam and 8 1/2 to Nairobi . We will be 9 hours ahead of your time.

5th in Nairobi hotel.

6th-Drive to Safari Sweet Waters Lodge (should see camels, yes camels and rhinos, etc.)

7-10th in Samburu Lodge. You can actually find Samburu on some African maps.
(at this time we will have crossed the equator as we go North)

11th Alliance Naro Moru Lodge

12-13th Lake Elementaita Lodge- Lake Nakuru (also on some maps)
and Masai Mara Game Reserve

14-15th Fig Tree Lodge

16-17th Sarova Mara Camp

18th Back to Nairobi and fly out late that night arriving home on the 19th

All this is subject to change according to the conditions. We hope to find internet connections so we can update this and get some pictures of what we are doing.

Hope you all keep things going in New London-Spicer until we get back.

How to leave a message on the blog

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Hi again. Some folks have said they were not able to leave a comment on the blog.
If you will click on the word "comment" under each entry you will find a place to leave your message. Since this is taking the place of a lot of emails we would love to hear from all of you.

Family-(missing Steve, Timm and Lloyd)

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Hi from Lloyd. We are still planning to go ,but we are not encouraged by the news coming out of Kenya. Stay tuned.

The picture on the left are all the knitting projects that Marie did for Christmas.

Sweaters for herself, Jenna, and Jordan, vests for Isaac and Ted, scarfs for Allison, Jana, and Daidre, mittens for Micah and Ander, backpack for Anica, rug for Kjerstin, and a throw for Aasta.

Whew that was one busy grandma.

Here is a picture of most of the family that will be praying for us-PLUS YOU- while we travel!!