sunrise at Tarangire Safari Lodge
T arangire National Park, Tanzania; Oct 21, 2004
thanks
We’d like to thank a lot of people for
helping make our trip possible and for enabling us to better
construct this site. Listing everybody is not practical, but
here are some of the highlights:
Nasir Hamid – for countless hours of photography advice
and teachings (click here for his photography
site)
John Moon – for helping with the video functionality
on this site and for being our first live courier and meeting
us in Vietnam
Ben Rigby – for assisting with some of the hairier
bits of coding on this site, for giving advice on the less
hairy bits, and for running 415
while we’re away
Andy Cowitt – for providing invaluable HTML advice
(when there are five ways to do something, it’s nice
to know which is best, and when you can’t think of ANY
way to do something, it’s nice to be told there is one)
Stella Lee, Samson Shu, Nasir (again), and Mom & Dad
Stanat - for long-distance beta-testing
Mom & Dad Stanat (again) - for helping with after-the-fact
bird classification for some of the photos
Ted & Jenny VanHuisen – for taking care of our
apartment and our cat Chloe
Kevin Clarke – for being the handiest
Jeremy & Hope – for coming to Brazil to hang out
with us for a couple weeks
Kinch & Heather and Stella & Spencer – for
joining us in Italy (K&H for a month, S&S for a week)
- what a nice change to be with people we know!
Our families – Though initially skeptical of the whole
crazy idea, they have been very supportive. Mrs. Hung even
brought us a little pile of new books and warm clothes while
we were in Taiwan. New clothes, ANY clothes – yay!
Our friends – So many people have provided help and
advice for various places: Kinch & Mia, Nas & Jen,
Kanad & JMT, Mandy & Michael, Katie & Doug, George
& Ann, Sam & Eddy, Tom & Kirsten, Tom & Kathryn,
Samson, Bryan Pelz & Hoan, Mike Darcy & Kieu, Maria
Sykes, Jeremy, Kei & his mom, Ali & her folks, Susan
Wood, Tuzinho (who scouted apartments in Brazil), Luiz &
Simon (who not only volunteered their own apartment even though
we hadn't yet met, but actually found us a better one in the
end, as well as helping out around Portugal with everything
else), and everybody that we’ve met along the way.
Our hosts – Our trip would have been much more expensive
if some wonderful peeps hadn't offered us a place to sleep
when in their vicinity: Nas & Jen (yes, again, where we
stayed in Oxford), James Ussher and family (who treated us
to a wonderful dinner in Oxford), Kanad & JMT (Hong Kong
lovely apartment), Maria & Sean (who shared their coolio
loft in Sydney with us for a couple weeks), Fran & Kirby
(who housed us in Invercargill, New Zealand before we wandered
north together up the coast), Jeanette & Peter (who graciously
hosted us in Auckland, even though we were complete strangers),
and Carlos & Andre (who we've never met, but allowed us
to use their apartment in Lisbon just because they're the
nicest people ever, and friends of Luis & Simon, who we
also just met).
And last but not least, all of you that have sent comments
and questions and encouraged us to keep this site going. We
never would have guessed that so many people from so many
places would take an interest - thanks so much!
