[Leica] Lesotho bound

[Philippe]

Hi Brian,

this as others have said it, is a wonderful plan - your Mum will be thrilled for sure.

As to the gear, you know what’s best for you. 
The only ommission I note is that of a specific mains adaptor (Amazon carry them) as I suspect the plugs are, as in SA and Eswatini where Alice and I travelled to last February, different from the plug and socket system in either the EU, the UK, or the US or Japan. The usual adaptor set won’t do.

We enjoyed fair weather then btw, which is promising for you. Except if you travel far « inland » you should be quite comfortable. Note that the roads may not always be what we call roads - potholes are the rules, when there's tarmac. Maybe Lesotho fares better?
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Les+Gens/South+Africa+-0611.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Les+Gens/South+Africa+-0611.jpg.html>

Also, some areas in SA suffer power-cuts, and water shortages. Be prepared for that there as I think they share the same power grid.

With the exception of customs officers (yet not worse than the US ones …) all the folks we encountered were charming, smiling and helpful people. 

Check on the embassy’s site about safety/security measures to be taken and keep yourselves and belongings on the safe side. 


Hope you enjoy a fantastic experience!

Amities

Philippe



> Le 21 déc. 2019 à 00:00, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> a écrit :
> 
> 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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