I can't remember for the life of me who is at what Lodge at Singita.

Now that some of the players have changed can we get a new roster?

MARC I EDITED YOUR POST TO UPDATE THE LIST IT IS EASIER THIS WAY.

Suzanne:

I copied this from a previous post by Ngaire in April. Given that Jerry and Peggy are included, it should be right.
I do seem to remember somewhere that we were in Unit #1 (maybe #2) so it looks right to me.

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!

I can't believe this :( I heard rumors but still hoped that was only what it was. So disappointed....you were a real champion of ROAR.

Tom will miss his B'day Bash. :mecry:

Marcie, I'm sorry you and Tom won't be traveling with us to Africa. I'm sure you will have a wonderful time doing the circumnavigation; that is one trip I really want to do too.

Ngaire, and the new occupants of Boulders are................?

Working on all this Marc. I have to offer this spot in Boulders "in order" to those who booked in Ebony. I have sent out the first email and not heard back yet. I will let you know.

The next on the waiting list are two of my friends, Mike and Tommie (Tommie is a female). I have traveled with them many many times and they are great people. Known them for about 25 years. They will be a wonderful addition to the group.

Marcie, sorry to hear about your and tom's plans for Roar since you were the sparkplug that ignited the ROAR fire..but your plan B around
South America sounds like the perfect "other choice" can't wait to hear your SA tales..r/wes

We are all going to miss Marcie and Tom but will think about them often.

At this point I think everyone else is a pretty strong committment. I have been in touch with everyone and it is all GO at this time.

I updated the list on Marcs post. Andrea was next in line for Boulders and she wanted to move.

We still have a waiting list. About four names now I think. (I am at home cant remember).

I hope Penny and Ray are still on that list!

I have the list on my machine at home. Did not realise I had it. There is one couple before Ray and Penny. They only signed on a couple of months ago.

What great news to learn that Ray and Penny are on the wait list. It's not like having them there with us, but if other folks who we so want to meet have a change in plans, NIRVANA!

Pat

Pat and Freddie...just incase you need a "tent" (i.e. cabin) you are welcome to ours again! I just hope we have the pleasure to meet you SOON!!! We will be with all of you in spirit... Freddie & Pat, remember my parents are also Freddie & Pat...you've got to be wonderful!)

I'm so happy that Ray and Penny are on the waitlist! What a wonderful trip this will be (SOB...running for tissue!)

We are just going to have the best time! I love to meet new people, especially when they are friends of Ngaire!

Hello ROARER's. Believe me, it's been quite a battle trying to get here but now we're here and we want to say that we are so honored and excited to be amongst such a terrific group of people on this trip.

We have such a problem with the internet connection from the Bahamas - atmospherics aren't realiable. It costs mega $$$ to connect, etc. So, we keep in touch with Linda as best we can.

Now that we are back in the US (Southern Cailifornia) we can now communicate. It is truly a pleasure to "speak" with all of you and hope that we meet the challenge of fulfilling the great (already) tradition of first-time ROARer's.

My husband and I will put together our biography so that we don't seem to be such "aliens" !! It's a pleasure to meet all of you & look forward to many spectacular experiences!!

Michele and Don

Welcome, welcome!!

Welcome Michel & Don! Don't stay strangers....so happy you're on ROAR with so many great people!

Michele and Don, looking forward to meeting you! Ngaire has promised a wonderful trip, and I am looking forward to it! Thanks for checking in on our board, and please, be a part of it as we approach this "trip of a lifeime"!

Thank you Suzanne and Marcie.! We are very happy to be here - finally! I am busy catching up on everyone so forgive our tardiness. We're trying to catch up on months of your experiences.

I think (if I have it correct) you are both in California - and Suzanne, you just returned from a fabulous trip to French Polyn?. Wonderful pictures we see! So many great photographers! And, Marcie - I understand that you are going to South America? What a fabulous circumnavigation that will be - but, ROAR will miss you terribly. We "newbys" have big shoes to fill. Keep close for therapy!! Hopefully, we'll all get together on a cruise in the near future.

michele

And, thank you JHP! We're looking forward to meeting you too! Yes, I agree - it's a trip of a lifetime. We are truly excited. Thanks for making us feel welcome. Hope to add to the adventure!!

Yes, Michele, that would be me the female California Pipster (and my alter-ego)!

Where in So. Cal. are you from?

Michele, you're in good company!! (as for shoes...I'm only a 6 1/2, easy to fill IF THEY'RE NOT STOLEN FROM THE HALL!...inside joke!) Yes, Suzanne is from No. Cal and I'm from So. Cal. close enough....

Marcie,

I'm a size 6. Had I only known... NEEHAAAhaHa..,
they would have ALL been mine.

Welcome Michele and Don! We will look forward to meeting you. I got the airfare booked yesterday so we're one step closer to ROAR. Next step is figure out a bicycling adventure day for this trip.

In the meantime, if you're partial to wine check your local stores for ROAR pinot noir. We could only find it in California. It'll put you right in the mood for the trip.

Whew! I'm a size 10. I still don't think that means my shoes are safe. Linda, bring the Chinese bargain pearls. We will stun the animals with them glinting in the sunlight (or something like that).

Cheers, Anne & Gary

Welcome Michelle and Don! Have you dived into the complications of air yet? I'm still working on it, but will make a decision this week assuming our Namibia extension works out. We all look forward to meeting you!
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Leslie

So happy to meet "New ROAR'ers"! Only 10 more months and we can "rumble in the jungle"!

WELCOME!

Of course I have already welcomed Michelle and Don but will do so LCT officially here. We do have such a wonderful group I just wish it was next week. I am looking forward to this trip so much. Ken and I have grown to love South Africa with a passion and cannot wait to return.

Welcome Michelle and Don --we're kind of newbies to this trip also. Fortunately we joined before the airlines opened up the flights for this trip, so we were able to get lots of good advice from everyone. I'm starting to formulate a bunch of questions, but I'm saving them up hoping they'll get answered here sometime in the coming months. That's what's great about LCT--you hardly ever have to ask your questions--there's so many knowledgeable people who usually answer them before you even need to ask. Looking forward to meeting you (and everyone else!)

Thank you all for the warm welcome. It's great to be able to converse with such a great group. We certainly look forward to the planning stage - once the airline project is finalized....!

Suzanne: We live in Santa Clarita. (North of LA.)
I love your official title, "female California Pipster" ! ..We're counting on you bringing your alter ego on this trip too! The posts and pictures on PIP certainly prove that this is a high energy group! We will rest up so we can keep up!

Marcie, I wear a shoe size 8 so, like the wicked stepsisters, there's no way I can fit/fill your shoes!

Anne & Gary, we are on our way, as we speak, to our local California wine shop to buy an official bottle of ROAR. Has to be interesting with a name like that! By the way, are you investigating a bicycling adventure?

Leslie, yes, we've submerged ourselves into the dreaded "airline" project. We were in the Bahamas when we had to start the "calling routine". At $3.00 a minute, it wasn't fun. Now, being home, I feel like we've been talking to the same guy who is in the TV commercial who keeps saying, "no, no, no, No, No, NO!!" to everything!Mercy!! I 'THINK' we have a schedule firm now but every now and then my husband will suggest a change in the route......ha. Fat chance there. Your Namibia idea sounds so fascinating. Hope you can get it figured out.

Suzie, yes, we will be more than ready after 10 months to "rumble in the jungle"! That is, depending upon whether we suffer through a 36 hour or a 16 hour flight ordeal !! Ah, the benefits for those living on the East coast....

Peggy, from Ft. Worth? I've relatives in Keller, close by. (I'm from Dallas originally.) And, thank you - that's a good idea to wait with all my questions also - I need to get educated here so will keep reading the back posts. So much good information!

Thanks again to you all. Now, back to the phones! Gotten get one more leg booked. :(
michele

Ngaire, many thanks for the "official" LCT welcome! It's been such a pleasure working with you and your team on this trip. What a great group, also, of ROARer's! Don and I hope to be able to add to the already fantastic planning process as the months go by. This project impressed us from the beginning - our beginning - my original exposure to all of this was from a magazine article about "Singita". Then, as fate would have it, your website adopted this wonderful idea, with Singita in it. I know the lovely ladies of LCT worked hard on this with you and we are now going to reap the benefits. I applaud yours and their fine work.
Michele & Don

Welcome Michele and Don. We are looking forward to meeting you and everyone else. This is going to be a fantastic trip. Good luck with the dreaded airline project - I have so far been able to get us from Boston to LHR to CapeTown and I can get us home from London, but no luck yet on the Johannesburg to London segment. I have developed a wonderful relationship with the American Airlines Executive Platinum folks who have been extraordinarily helpful during this quest.

Mary Ellen

Let me also say welcome from Fred and Patrick. We are looking forward to meeting you very much. We lived in Southern California from '80 to '88. Our first home was in Studio City, our second in Van Nuys. Fred is an attorney. He worked at Jacobs Engineering out in Pasadena. I was an administrator at CSUN. A centerpiece of our lives over the last 31 years has been our animals. At one time four dogs and four cats. Now three dogs and one cat. The dogs: a wonderful 12 year old terrier mix named Boris who has been fighting cancer successfully for nearly two years. He continues to love life. Will release him the second that changes. Also, Misha, 3, a beautiful white miniature poodle, and Katyusha, 2, a totally adorable Cairn Terrier who is the cousin of Chat Kat's (Kathy)Cairn Daisy who is about to star as Toto in the Whizard of Oz down in Thousand Oaks. Chat Kat is responsible for Katyusha coming into our lives. The cat is a white barnyard cat named Yuri now about 11. He adopted us. Long story. All of our animals have been given Russian names since Fred was a Russian linguist in the Army in ancient history. Anyway, we have lots in common and we know ROAR will be a trip of a lifetime both for the venue and our fellow travelers.

Patrick

Mary Ellen, it will be great to meet you too! That's great that you've found someone good to deal with at AA. We can't wait to get this airline thing over with! We're almost there! Thanks for the welcome!

Patrick, greetings and thank you for the warm welcome! I read your post to my husband-he's from Sierra Madre, next door to Pasadena. He does know of Jacobs Engineering from his banking days. He's says, "It's a great company." And we certainly are familiar with CSUN. My daughter had many a chemistry class there! I love the stories about your animals. Your Boris reminds me of our "Rufus". She was a black lab, lived for 15 long wonderful years - kept her happy and pain free through 4 years of cancer. Like you mentioned, we knew when it was her "time". I miss her dearly. You must be so close to Boris. What a great group you have there! I'll have to check into seeing ChatKat's Daisy at her debute in the Wizard of Ox in Thous.Oaks - not too far from us.
We look forward to meeting you and Fred!
michele & Don

Pat:

After emailing you privately I reluctantly dropped a note asking Ngaire to remove us from the waitlist.

Our priority now is a kitchen makeover (argh) and then the Baltics in June 2006.

When Fred talks to the critters, does he do it in English or Russian? Wish we had you guys with us in the Baltics. What a treat it would be to have a personal interpreter.

Cheers! Ray

Fred:

When I told Penny of this thread, she called me a silly nit as there was no doubt in her mind that your critters are bilingual.

Cheers! Ray
p.s. Got your postcard today. Thanks!

I think there are new changes to the roll call. Can we have a new update with rooms? Thanks!!!

BOULDERS – ASSIGNED ROOM NUMBERS
1. Marc and Arlene
2. Olivia and JoAnna
3. Anne and Gary
4. Suzanne
5. Suzanne and Marilyn
6. Doug and Andrea
7. Bradley and Leslie
8. Andrea and Jerel
9. Mark and Pam

EBONY – ASSIGNED ROOM NUMBERS
1. Don and Michelle.
2. Tommie and Michael
3. Joe and Judy
4. Jim and Mary Ellen
5. Ron and Linda
6. Ken and Ngaire
7. Ray and Penny
8. Elizabeth and Al
9. Gerry and Peggy

Ngaire:

Any chance we can have a Vic Falls roll call?

Victoria Falls Roll Call
From memory I think this is correct.

1. Marc and Arlene
2. Olivia and JoAnna
3. Anne and Gary
4. Suzanne - 1 night only
5. Andrea and Jerel
6. Don and Michelle.
7. Tommie and Michael
8. Joe and Judy
9. Jim and Mary Ellen
10. Ron and Linda
11. Ken and Ngaire
12. Elizabeth and Al
13. Gerry and Peggy
14. Suzie and Marilyn
15. Andrea and Doug

Ngaire,
How could you forget us, Suzie and Marilyn? :mecry: :mecry:

Ah sorry!!! You are definitely unforgettable.

I had you on the list originally then the numbers had to be changed because they did not match - (I cut and pasted from above). I must have removed your name along with Andrea and Doug when I was messing with the numbers.

That is what happens when you get caught between one person only going in for one night and two couples not going at all.