Tuesday, January 27, 2026

My grandmother's 1982 trip to Africa

Continuing with last week's theme of posting about some items I came across during the sorting and decluttering of family ephemera this month, here's the itinerary for my grandmother Helen Ingham's February 1982 trip to Africa, through Holbrook Travel of Gainesville, Florida. 

As you can see, the nearly-three-week trip involved parts of Kenya and Tanzania, including Serengeti National ParkMaasai Mara National Reserve and Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Here are some of my grandmother's better snapshots from that trip:
And here's a neat picture that someone else took of my grandmother...
Finally, here's a picture of my grandmother (left) and her good friend and companion on the trip to Africa, Betty Livingston. My grandmother died in 2003. Betty is still alive as of this writing and will hopefully be celebrating her 106th birthday this upcoming May!

2 comments:

  1. Talk about.a smallll world -- back in the early 90's I typesetted Holbrook Travel's newsletters that were mailed to their customers.

    They are still around and rocking it.

    Thanks for sharing, I enjoy your posts and get them via your RSS feed in my RSS reader. : )

    Ray

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    1. Oh wow! A small world indeed. This was certainly not a post I expected to connect with someone. Thank you for reading Papergreat! (Also, you and I are in the dwindling group of folks who know what typesetting is.)

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