The Final Final.

When we do dinner outside the gates, we like to stop at a local establishment for what we call the final final. It is a great way to cap the evening.

This blog post is my final final for this trip. Thank you for reading and your likes and comments. Thank you Allison for your help and coaching. I could not have done it without you.

Let me share a bit about last night. After the plane ride we arrived in Nairobi for a night. When the Princess and I arrived at our room, someone had decorated our bed.

After a great sleep we had breakfast. What was the only downer was getting out of our jeep Lynn had jumped and hurt her knee. She could hardly walk. So we began thinking how to make the rest of the trip easy for her.

We had to check out of our room and had three hours to kill at the hotel. Here we are.

Then it was off to the airport. While there we sat in the lounge and I interviewed my traveling companions on their individual highlights of the trip. Here we go.

Nate was blown away when we first arrived at our first camp. He walked out and saw the watering hole that he had been watching on line for months. He saw all the animals attempting to get a drink and realised he was in Africa and the dream had become reality.

The Princess was amazed at the Wildebeest who could not find their families after swimming through the river and dangerous currents. They jumped back in and swam back looking for them. The pull of family is strong among animals.

Sandy echoed in her own way the sense of family by seeing the lioness with her cubs and the gorillas with their kids and elephants with their babies. The sense of family was something that stuck with her as something she will never forget.

As I get to the end of our adventure I share a picture that is very meaningful to me.

This trip would not have been possible without the hard work and planning by my Princess. She made it possible. I thank her from the bottom of my heart. I love you.

Also a shout out to my second wife Sandy for all her help both pre, during and as we wind down our adventure. I would not want to travel with anyone on an adventure like this but you and blackback. Nothing upsets you two. Thanks for being our traveling buddies now on five adventures. Hopefully more to come.

When we started our adventure in Phoenix, I was fooling around in Phoenix airport and sat in a wheelchair. She told me not to because that was a bad omen. Here I was.

She was right. She always is. It was a bad omen but for her. Well here she is being wheeled through Nairobi airport.

Then they put us on a special bus and a lift so she did not have to walk up the stairs. I felt like a piece of cargo being loaded.

We made it to Doha, had a two hour lay over and got back into our container truck for our 15 hour flight to Dallas. Here is the gang ready for this long flight. We have stayed awake to sleep as long as we can.

We are now three hours out of Dallas so when we land, I want to load the final pictures and send this.

I can’t thank you enough for following my blog. It has been a challenge to keep it going every day, but a fun one at that. I learned a lot from this adventure and plan to keep this blog going on future trips. If I take one life lesson away from this adventure, enjoy the moment. Life is short and when you have unique opportunities to see and experience things with those you love and consider family, in the words of Nike. just do it.

That is my final final.

Until we meet again.

Matt