[Leica] Lesotho bound

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Some adventure. Have fun.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 4:30 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
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 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
>
> 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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