We spent most of the day working on final plans for our upcoming Africa trip.

We researched appropriate clothing colors – white is a bad idea; so is black and dark blue.

We shopped for new shirts in those appropriate colors and didn’t find them in the store, but did find it on their website – we should get them next week.

We started looking for interesting tours to take in Cape Town on the free days we have between arrival and the first scheduled activity.

We took the information in the Trip Book and excerpted relevant parts into a spreadsheet so we can see the trip at a glance.

And we’re looking for better backpacks to make the most use of underseat space; we want to avoid checking a bag if at all possible.

There’s more to life than trip planning, of course. We’re seeing Into the Woods at Lyric Theatre tonight; I’m not going to want to post after the show, so here you are!

Shabbat Shalom!

I finished the Visionary Communication path at the Silver Tongued Cats meeting this morning – I’d started it more than four years ago, so the word of the day (tenacity) rang a bell with me.

The final project in every path is “Reflect on Your Path” – you’re supposed to speak for 10-12 minutes about what you learned during the path and how you grew – and that was my assignment this morning. I spoke a lot about the “Vision” element of the path and how I might have chosen a different path if I’d read the mandatory “Develop Your Vision” project description first. People seemed to like the speech – at least no one dropped off the Zoom session while I was giving it!

I’m already well along on my third path (Presentation Mastery); I don’t know what I’ll choose after that, but I probably have a year to figure it out.

Our Internet connection has been behaving today; I hope I didn’t just jinx it.

I’m still not ready to go out in the sun or to shave, but I’ve been much less uncomfortable today than I was yesterday. I took a walk around 8:45pm and got to see a teeny-tiny bit of sunset.