Posted on 07/07/2013 8:54:45 AM PDT by NOBO2012
“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
Because of the Independence Day holiday and all the other news rolling out of Egypt around the time we were wrapping up our African non-safari trip, I never got a chance to adequately wrap up the highlights.
So settle in with your mug of coffee and one of those really naughty jelly filled donuts that are banned in NYC and get ready to rumble down that road; It’s the very special MOTUS Out of Africa Roundup.
“Here I am, where I am supposed to be.” ― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
As you recall our journey began with the family departing from the south portico to board Marine Won:
Look – a zebra! And we haven’t even left home yet!
Our very subdued $100 million trip – “a nod to the reality of tight economic times” according to the LA Times:
Obama's trip included remembrances of great leaders and reflections on history, but was largely absent the typical cultural scenes:no safaris, no dancing, no posing with tribesmen.
Obama, in one of his few moments working a crowd, briefly grooved with a drum circle in Senegal. The president beamed and began to sway a bit — but stopped short of dancing.
Not short enough
We stopped by the fabled Goree Island, mythically rumored to be the port of slave drivers, butt in reality just the home of a Dutch merchant equipped with a convenient garbage chute ...
(SNIP)
(Excerpt) Read more at michellesmirror.com ...
Why not post it all here instead pf pimping for hits?
That group picture looks like an African dictator’s family. Oh, wait! It is!
Man, I throw up a little everytime I see pictures like this.
The only one dressed appropriately is President Obama....go figure.
Every now and then when I look at Obama I’m gob smacked and I wonder to myself how in the Wide World of Sports did this lazy ass, responsibility-avoiding , blame-assigning , narcissistic prick ever get elected president?
This poster apparently only posts his/her blog items.
You are correct.
As if we need more classlessness: the daughters, Michelle and the son-in-law all walk ahead of Michelle’s mother, who’s left to walk with the neice, who has to lug her own bags.
Keeping these people pretending to be civilized is apparently more than a highly-paid, 24/7 full staff can handle.
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