[Leica] Lesotho bound

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Have a great trip Brian, and enjoy the place. It's certainly high enough 
at over 6,000 feet, so your Mum will feel the lack of oxygen when moving 
around - as you probably will too! Take it easy and don't hike up any 
mountains!
We'll look forward to the pics.

Douglas



On 20/12/2019 23:00, Brian Reid wrote:
> My niece is getting married in Lesotho on December 29.
> https://www.theknot.com/us/naomi-glassman-and-kopano-majara-dec-2019
>
> My 94-year-old mother (the bride's grandmother), who lives in Maine, 
> wishes to attend, so I will be escorting her from York, Maine to 
> Maliba Lodge in Lesotho via Washington Dulles, Accra, Johannesburg, 
> and Maseru. I have arranged for wheelchairs in all of the airports and 
> I have significant medical insurance for both of us. Also, the bride's 
> stepfather is a principal in M?decins Sans Fronti?res and will be there.
>
> I'll be gone for Christmas and for my wedding anniversary, but I'm 
> hoping to be able to FaceTime my wife that day via my iPhone. And I 
> hope to come back with a truckload of pictures that I will process in 
> Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CS6
>
> Lesotho is so beautiful that I'm sure I will break my personal rule 
> and take landscape pictures in addition to pictures of people. I've 
> got my Q2, four 1733X 128GB SD cards, a USB charger for the Q2 
> batteries, two Steri-pens, plenty of loperamide, my MacBook, two USB-C 
> external hard drives (not to be kept in the same place), and some 
> clothes. Also various folding canes, suction-cup shower grab bars, and 
> a gait belt.
>
> I've photographed more than 100 weddings, but never before with a 28mm 
> lens. We shall see what happens.
>
> The groom's parents speak only Sesotho, but the bride (my niece Naomi) 
> speaks a dozen languages fluently, one of which is Sesotho. I've 
> learned to read it a little bit and have learned enough of the spoken 
> language to know that "Maliba" is pronounced "muh-DEE-bah".
>
> Today I've been preparing the inscription for a Sesotho-language bible 
> that our family is going to give the groom's parents at the wedding. 
> The inscription says
>
>
> Bibele ena ke mpho ea lelapa la bo Kopano Majara ho tsoa ho lelapa la 
> bo Naomi Glassman ka lenyalo la Kopano le Naomi.
>
> E fanoa ke lelapa la bo Naomi ho tsoa USA.? Elizabeth, nkhono oa Naomi,
>
> ? ? Le
>
> Alexander, Allyson, Andrea, Benjamin, Brian, Bruce, Carl, Cora, 
> Daniel, Dwayne, Dwayne, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Ethan, Garrett, Georgia, 
> Glenn, Grace, Harvey, Jennifer, Joanne, Jordyn, Joyce, Katherine, 
> Katrina, Kevin, Kristine, Levi, Loretta, Lucille, Matthew, Michael, 
> Naomi, Nicholas, Nolan, Nora, Orson, Otto, Owen, Phillip, Roxanne, 
> Russell, Steven, Susan, Vanessa, le Victoria
>
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