S Africa – NNs On the Wind

Durban SA – 29Dec17-3Jan18

Kathleen Ennen / December 29, 2017

DURBAN, SA We decided to go back to South Africa to visit Durban after our niece Charlotte told us not to miss it. We found a nice Airbnb flat that was a bit of a hike from the downtown area. We were able to walk to the grocery store for provisions but relied on our […]

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Ennen Family Trip Simons Town Penguin Colony 17Dec17

Kathleen Ennen / December 17, 2017

Simons Town, South Africa The Ennen family trip with Candy and Shea Ennen, son Henry, daughter Charlotte, Peace Corps Volunteer, and Kathleen and Thom Ennen. Today we got a UBER to drive down the west side coast to Boulders Beach to see the South African penguin colonies. So many!!! and funny little “houses” in the

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Ennen Family Trip – Stellenbosch Wine Tour 15Dec17

Kathleen Ennen / December 15, 2017

Stellenbosch Wine Tour, South Africa The Ennen family trip with Candy and Shea Ennen, son Henry, daughter Charlotte, Peace Corps Volunteer, and Kathleen and Thom Ennen. Great all day wine tour of the Stellenbosch area not far from Cape Town. Beautiful wines. Learned an interesting bit of info – the palette of younger wine drinkers,

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Ennen Family Trip – Cape Town Table Mountain 14Dec17

Kathleen Ennen / December 14, 2017

Cape Town, South AfricaTable Mountain The Ennen family trip with Candy and Shea Ennen, son Henry, and Kathleen and Thom Ennen, depart for S Africa on 9Dec 2017 to meet up with and travel with Charlotte Ennen, Peace Corps Volunteer in a village not far from Vryburg SA. 14 December – we took the tram,

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Ennen Family Trip – Cape Town 13Dec17

Kathleen Ennen / December 13, 2017

Cape Town, South Africa The Ennen family trip with Candy and Shea Ennen, son Henry, and Kathleen and Thom Ennen, depart for S Africa on 9Dec 2017 to meet up with and travel with Charlotte Ennen, Peace Corps. Spent 5 days in Cape Town. Lots of walking and sightseeing – Table Mountain, Wine Tour, drive

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Ennen Family Trip 12-21 Dec 2017

Kathleen Ennen / December 12, 2017

Vryburg, South Africa The Ennen family trip with Candy and Shea Ennen, son Henry, and Kathleen and Thom Ennen, depart for S Africa on 9Dec 2017 to meet up with and travel with Charlotte Ennen, Peace Corps Volunteer in a village not far from Vryburg SA. Charlotte meets us at the airport after significant delays

Kathleen and Thom

We have traveled over the years and retired in 2017, when we started on a nine month long adventure departing in December 2017. In the past we’ve traveled to Sri Lanka, Africa (several times), Turkey, and made a number of trips to Europe, and St Lucia. Our 2015 trip to Turkey, took nearly 3 weeks to explore Istanbul, Cappadocia and the areas in proximity to Izmir.

This is a chronicle of our travels, past and present. We love to travel by trains, planes, ships, and cars – and love sailing whenever and wherever we can.

We retired from the US General Services Administration, the Federal Government’s landlord! Thom worked at planning and large scale program management of numerous projects and Kathleen, a registered professional civil engineer, was a project manager for many infrastructure and building renovation projects, including both design and construction aspects, in New England, Florida and the metro DC area. We lived in Washington DC for 12 years and upon retirement sold the house, putting a few things in a 5’x5’ storage unit and started traveling.

On return to the US in September 2018, after traveling to 21 countries, we bought a Class C RV – 2019 Thor Freedom Elite 24FE. We enjoyed our week long camping trip in New Zealand in a small converted van with few amenities, so this seemed liked a good way to tour the US. We hope to visit family along the way and as many US National Parks as possible.

UPDATE – the Covid pandemic made travel more difficult for us. We were abroad for several months when the pandemic started and returned to the US in July 2020. After several months in the RV to visit Utah and Albuquerque NM, we moved east, bought a house on the Northern Neck of Virginia, and sold the RV. For 2021 and 2022 we tended to our new house and cottage, gardens and various boats including a 18’ 1977 Marshall Sanderling catboat and a 25’ Steiger Craft Chesapeake fishing boat, and kayaks and a canoe. Hopefully travel will start again one day!!

May 2022