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Whisky in my Pocket

Just a guy exploring the world and drinking whisky

Kampala – Day 2

Kampala – Day 2

Kirkby KirkJuly 3, 2018November 18, 2019

We were all up pretty early this morning (everyone’s still feeling the jet lag) and ready to go by the appointed time… but our driver …

Kampala – Day 1

Kampala – Day 1

Kirkby KirkJuly 2, 2018November 18, 2019

We all woke up fairly early this morning (to be expected when you fall asleep at 8pm and your body has no idea where it …

Arriving in Kampala

Arriving in Kampala

Kirkby KirkJuly 1, 2018November 18, 2019

The flight from Addis Ababa passed uneventfully and we soon found ourselves descending into Entebbe Airport – yes, for those of you old enough to …

Toronto to Addis Ababa to Kampala

Toronto to Addis Ababa to Kampala

Kirkby KirkJune 30, 2018November 18, 2019

We landed in Toronto pretty whacked out from the overnight flight. For some reason the plane was extraordinarily hot – so hot that even Marie …

Departure Day Part 2

Departure Day Part 2

Kirkby KirkJune 29, 2018November 18, 2019

We arrived at the Swartz Bay ferry terminal right on time (well most of us at least) and took advantage of their 50% off fares …

Departure Day Morning

Kirkby KirkJune 28, 2018November 18, 2019

Wow. This is really happening. In a little less than 8 hours we’re going to be boarding the ferry to Vancouver and starting our epic …

T-Minus 3 Days…

Kirkby KirkJune 20, 2018November 18, 2019

Whose idea was it to try and put a trip to Africa together right at the end of the school year / the start of …

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"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

Edward Abbey

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Cheers, Kirk

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