http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/E3/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from E3 en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:39:17 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:39:17 +0000 After six trips around the world in just over two years Elise and I finally chose a home. How did we decide Where did we end upWell lets start with the master list over the last year we have considered Vancouver CanadaLondon EnglandBali IndonesiaLas Vegas USALos Angeles USACape Town South AfricaSingapore SingaporeProvidenciales Turks and Caicos Vancouver I have lived in Vancouve http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Turks-and-Caicos/Providenciales/blog-373044.html So this blog entry is a little different it is about a business seminar we just attended so I wonrsquot blame you if this is as far as you get. If so see you next timeFor those of you still reading I will make it brief. Elise and I have just spent the weekend at Roger Hamilton's Wealth Dynamics weekend and I can tell you that for all the reading and study I have undertaken over the years We http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-153627.html After our less than successful search for the hunters of Kondoa we set out yesterday morning from Arusha to Lake Eyasi. And this time we had partners in crime. Our total cast included Chris Piley and Bea from Bush2Beach Safaris and a new addition Our friend Eliza and her Masai boyfriend Lengolin. Eliza has just moved to Tanzania to live with Lengolin. The road to Eyasi is not nearly as lon http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Lake-Eyasi/blog-144610.html We have spent a great deal of time in Africa 3 months this year. It would not have been nearly so easy and pleasurable if not for one tour operator in particular. I wonrsquot go into too much detail except to say that Bush 2 Beach safaris has taken extremely good care of me my clients and my family. I have done separate trips to Selous Serengeti Arusha Ngorongoro Zanzibar with groups http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Arusha/blog-147671.html The road the Kondoa is one of the worst roads I have ever experienced. I read in another travel blog about a couple trying to reach Kondoa and only getting as far as Babati. I donrsquot blame them. Years ago I lived in Vancouver Canada and had a regular practice of taking my Jeep deep into the mountains around BC. The road to Kondoa reminded me of the very worst logging roads I ever had ev http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Kondoa/blog-143988.html 5000YearOld Graffiti at KolonbspAfrica raquonbspTanzania raquonbspKolo By E3March 29th 2007www.EricandElise.com A long drive a long hike searing heat and then three caves with 5000yearold graffiti. I was really moved by these paintings. Zebra giraffes people animal traps and even some bizarre rapelike sexual ritual painting covered the walls of these small caves. The cave pai http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Kolo-Rock-Ancient-Paintings/blog-143996.html Hi all I know it has been a long time since I blogged is that REALLY a verb now and many things have changed. First of all I no longer travel alone. I travel with Princess Elise my girlfriend and best friend. We have seen a fair bit of the planet recently and failed to blog We are planning to go back and create small entries with photos of some of our missed trips. For now however w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/blog-141232.html This entry was posted on 27 March 2007 we are still experiencing Bloglag. No not Olduvai as you may have come to know it but Oldupai. Oldupai is a Maasai word for a local cactus that grows in the area. Early Europeans mispronounced or misspelled rather the name and now the world knows Oldupai as Olduvai. I have wanted to visit Oldupai for a long time for many of the same reasons http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Olduvai-Gorge/blog-142349.html Well we did not see Speedy Gonzales but our rabble bunch Shoalie Jules Elise and I made our way into Ensenada for dinner. The girls went on ahead to scout locations shop and we lost them for hours. There is not a great deal to report about Ensenada it is much like any other touristtrap town in Mexico. The food was good the people friendly and it was a nice place to stop before heading http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California/Ensenada/blog-151301.html And suddenly it was 18000 years ago. I found myself standing in a large open cavern with the most vivid and amazing cave paintings I have ever seen. When I had heard and read about Lascaux I imagined that it would be much like the other prehistoric paintings I had seen I could not have been more wrong.The Lascaux caves are located in Southcentral France not far from Toulouse. They hold a col http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Aquitaine/Lascaux/blog-81000.html I know I have not yet posted anything on the fourcountry drive we undertook a few days ago or about our stay in Cannes still to come. I just had to post a quick few shots I took last night coming home from sushi in Moncao...I will say that the road trip continues today we leave Cannes and the largest collection of DG Chanel and Dior Sunglasses in the world and head back toward the UK. I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Monaco/blog-79886.html My arrival back in London or actually my flight over Paris on the way to London marked my first ever complete ldquoround the worldrdquo experience. To recap in the past 6 months I have travelled roughly this route I say roughly because there are a few side trips I have left outLondon Paris Miami Vancouver Kelowna Vancouver Los Angeles Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Bali L http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Greater-London/blog-79147.html Driving into Ngorongoro crater is unlike anything else in the world. I often joke that Ngorongoro is really more like a zoo than a nature reserve but when we crested the crater wall and looked down into the crater I felt chastised it is one of the most glorious and stunning pieces of land in the world without question.The crater is something like 20 miles across and when you are in the middle http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-79140.html Sorry the late listing. I have had no access to the net and in fact I am not even sure if this listing will show as the net access I am using is some oldfashion thing called dilup apparently Anyway I flew rather uneventfully home with my recently injured possibly broken metatarsal foot and passed through Joburg in my shortest ever visit to South Africa. One thing worth of note is that Jobur http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Gauteng/Johannesburg/blog-77474.html Not much to say... just wanted to share a few more pics.... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Centre/Selous-Game-Reserve/blog-75336.html I have been to some of the great wild life areas of Africa like the Kruger National Park the Okavango delta and many others. I had even visited the Serengeti plains the Ngorongoro crater and Lake Manyara but I had never before been to Selous.Selous is a massive park bigger even than Kruger and 2 years older. It is pronounced lsquose loosrsquo and was named after an English soldier Frederic http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/Centre/Selous-Game-Reserve/blog-75154.html Sorry for the BLOGLAG... I did not want to publish this one until I had the pictures to go along with it... this is an entry fro midJune... if you are EVER in Bali I seriously recommend this place. Ask for Stuart the owner and tell him I sent youhttpwww.theahimsa.comYou never know what is next. I was planning to check into the Conrad hotel when I re http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/Seminyak/blog-66855.html I decided to go for a walk outside the hotel. The sun was pounding down and the air hot and sticky. The streets were crowded with people buying and selling a variety of things from fresh fruit to strappy sandals. I saw a small stall selling sugar cane yes please I will take two. I put on in my pocked and ate the other. The one in my pocket was a bit too long and protruded by about half its len http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-73190.html What a long day. It started in Bangkok yesterday when I boarded my flight to Singapore. A four hour wait and some excellent electronics shopping including an underwater case for my IPOD Nano and I boarded the long flight to Joburg. It was a treat though with lieflat beds and inseat power for my laptop so I could get in a few episodes of ALIAS before I fell asleep for the rest of he flight.Ar http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/East/Dar-es-Salaam/blog-72878.html So my friend Jesse says What are you doing tomorrow No plans I say. What you got in mindI am going to the Bangkok Hilton you wanna comeWell since I was already staying at the Bangkok Hilton I assumed he meant The Tiger the infamous Bangkwang Prison. Yep it turned out he was planning to go and see one of the Canadians serving a Life Sentence.So off we went two quick boat rides http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-72064.html