2000 Dec 31 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 👍

Back at the Batpad, Toronto, Ontario, December 31st, 2000. Post Trip Addendum

The cruiser returns triumphant, loaded with all our swag, in the middle of winter

Jim's Latest

Probable some town hall in Switzerland

Erwin & I go way back to 1976

OK all you stay at home folks out there, we are back in Canada, after one hell of a trip. We were VERY lucky to avoid lots of potential aggravation (and worse) on trek, but also equally lucky to have had such a wonderful time (No it was not the trip of a lifetime, just another trip)

Erwin in Lucerne.
We toured Switzerland and environs

Definitely the Louvre on a dull
December day in Paris

All we appear to have lost was a pair of old sandals, a Diesel Tank fuel cover and a Post Restante delivery of Economists in Swaziland. (Editors Note: Actually, this arrived safe and sound back to the original sender, 9 months after we left Swazi - it was actually there at the post office the last day we tried to find it, but, well Africa.......)
We are however, all back safe sound heavier in body mass, and much lighter in assets after our excessive trek. Even the Cruiser has arrived back.

View, with gargoyles, (the one taking the pix) from Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

To all the people we have met, new friends, old friends, people we would gladly avoid if we had a second chance, all others who we have ignored or pretended to like, plus that small remainder of people not in the above, we thank you for being there or not, and will move on with our lives with our past experiences to enrich and direct us. 
The Smiths, Koplimaes and Koplimae-Smiths
PS, it's a lot easier e-mailing from Canada than on the road, and we are all independently accessible through our e-mail addresses again.

Now, life returns to "normal" . For a while anyway