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Published: January 13th 2011
When i was 8 there was the school trip to ontario place at the end of the semester... pretty lame in retrospect. What i will never forget is viewing my first IMAX movie in the Cinesphere, The Pacific Ring of Fire. Mountainous volcanoes spewing lava all around tropical islands and filmed from a helicopter; it blew my young sense away and made me want to see these vast wild landscapes. Now we're ...
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Dean
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Volcanos and buses
My only experience with volcanos was Vesuvius. No, I take that back; Kilimanjaro was also an old volcano. In any case, neither were active and not as exciting as your volcano hike. I wonder what "safe" distance was. I suspect not as close as 5 metres but who knows. The bus trip that my daughter and I took from Nairobi to Aurusa (sp?) was at least in a modern van but we had 16 + luggage in a van for 12 and I was unable to move a cm in any direction and my legs were in so much pain at the end that I could barely move. Yes, travel is so much fun at times. I continue to enjoy your travels from the comfort of my desk chair. (You are missing all the floods in Queensland. 8 metre walls of water going down valleys and washing out towns and people.)