[Leica] Lesotho bound

[Brian Reid]

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 Médecins Sans Frontières 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

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Grace, Harvey, Jennifer, Joanne, Jordyn, Joyce, Katherine, Katrina, 
Kevin, Kristine, Levi, Loretta, Lucille, Matthew, Michael, Naomi, 
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