Margie’s folks are off to Africa for three weeks (taking our new camera with them). We just got their itinerary, and Margie put it up on the refrigerator.<\/p>\n
“After all,” she noted, “last time they were off on a trip to a country with political unrest and problems, I had to pull out their schedule and do international date line calculations to make sure they were okay.”<\/p>\n
Oh, yeah. That was the time they were touring here<\/a> the day <\/em>before this<\/a> started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Margie’s folks are off to Africa for three weeks (taking our new camera with them). 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