In 1973 Both Judy and I were on Sabbatical leave.  

In June we traveled to Capetown, South Africa with stops along the way in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.  We arrived in Buenos Aires a few days after Juan Peron retuened from exile and a week or so after there was a bombing in the hotel we had reserved.

We stayed in Capetown for July and most of August.  During that period we traveled to the Cape of Good Hope and also to Alice, home of Fort Hare University, to visit the Duminy family.

After our stay in Capetown we took the train to Johannesburg and then drove to Krueger National Park.  

We had arranged for a safari in Kenya and Tanzania but we could not fly to Nairobi because the World Bank was meeting there and there were no hotel rooms available.  Instead we flew to Dar es Salaam, spent several days there at the beach and then flew to Mombasa for two days.  Finally we flew to Nairobi, were picked up at the airport and went directly to Amboseli National Park.  From there we went to Lake Manyara, the Ngorogoro Crater, and then to the Serengheti.  

Since there were still no hotel rooms in Nairobi we stayed our last night at Lake Naivasha (site of tthe Born Free movie) and went from there to the airport to leave.

We were to spend the fall semester in Jerusalem.  Unfortunately our travel agent in Capetown had booked our flight to Israel on Rosh Hashanah.  Since the next flight was a week later and we couldn't stay in Nairobi we decided to fly to Addis Ababa for a week of r and r.

The next week we flew to Jerusalem and settled in our apartment the day before Yom Kippur.  On Yom Kippur morning we awoke to find that Israel had been attacked by Syria and Egypt.  But that is another story.

The photos on this site are from the pre-Ethiopia part of that trip.  I recently had the color negatives scanned.  I suspect that the company that processed the film 42 years ago did a bad job and, unlike wine, the negatives did not improve with age.  They were scratched, blotched and heavily speckled.  I've tried my best to salvage them but they are best seen on small screens since to overcome the speckling I've had to blur the pictures a bit.  The two images that follow indicate the before and after of this process.  

For us these photos bring back memories from many years ago.  I hope that you enjoy seeing them.