January 27, 2015 Acknowledgements

By the time you read this final blog, we will have started our return trip home.  We land in Dar es Salaam at 6:30 a.m. EST on January 27th and fly out that same evening at 8:30 p.m. EST landing in Ottawa around 8:00 p.m. EST on January 28th.

Without the support and contributions from the following individuals, this BLOG would not have been possible:

•  Me - For coming up with the idea of doing a blog and for having the idle mental capacity to scribe it. Well done, Greg.

• Diane Boyle and Louise Riendeau - For being great and loving trip companions and providing some of the facts and kind of helping out with the editing by pointing out the odd spelling and grammatical error and challenging my factual accuracy for some of the details. Without their help, this blog would still have been good.

• Jeff Boyle & Lynda Levesque - For being loyal followers of the blog and the intellectual inspiration for me over the years.  Truly.....well....sort of.

• Adam & Erin Boyle - Again, for being faithful followers of the blog and for keeping silent over the years about their father's embarrassing behaviour.

• Chris "Herbs" Harber - For his sage advice on how to deal with a couple of fellows that play for the "other" team and keeping me grounded in reality over the years.

• Donna & Pete "Dad" Atkinson - For looking after Maggie in our absence and being the unwitting recipients of several barbs in the blog as well as in videos yet to be shown.

• Bob & Faye Kipp - For almost coming on the trip with us. Can we still come and visit you in Myrtle Beach? 

• Janet Leppard - For coming through as usual "guessing" what some of the words meant and coming up with hilarious interpretations.

• Marie Riendeau - who helped make this trip a reality. 

• Anita Boyle - for been the biggest fan of the blog and believing every word her son wrote.

• Nazmin Alani - a friend through work and an ex-pat from Uganda who did a similar trip to region the year before and for continuous encouragement to go through with the trip when things looked a bit unsettled.

• Maggie - For not giving a crap where we were.

• Mueima, Fred and Pascal - Our faithful drivers and tour guides throughout the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Reserve who kept us safe the entire time while over-delivering on our expectations. We made them honorary citizens of Canada by bestowing them with Canadian flag lapel pins.

• The people and the wildlife of Uganda and Tanzania - for meeting and exceeding our expectations and making this the trip of a lifetime.

Disclaimer:  The author does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of any of the statements or claims that he made as well as the factual veracity of the blog.  Further, should any individual(s) who may have been referenced in some form or fashion in the blog and feels slighted or offended, please get over it.