Marc, many ROARers already know this but to make it official, we've had to postpone ROAR until a later time. I won't bore you with all the details but the bottom line....you may recall, we were combining a land trip in Switzerland visiting a very dear friend with ROAR. We got word that she will be working out of the country so this "combination trip" went kurplunk! As much as Tom and I both hate flying long distances....we decided to wait until a time when we can combine visiting her in Switzerland with flying to/from South Africa.

You can imagine how disappointed we were! We still wanted to do something new we'd never done before so we've booked the 62 day Mariner trip around South America in January '06. After 109 days on the WC, the S.A. trip will seem like a "quickie"...throw a few things in an overnight bag.... best of all, no overseas flights!