Instead of making a weekly trip to Meijer or Walmart for groceries, being able to purchase everything you need for the week in one location, imagine having to walk out into the wilderness to forage for food, water, and medicine.…
Our Tour with Intrepid: Crew and Tour Members
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our time on tour with Intrepid. For 22 days, we joined the “Cape Town to Vic Falls: Basix” tour, along with three crew members and nine trip mates. The thing…
Typical Tuesday: February 21, 2017
This is a series in which I describe a typical Tuesday during our travels. This will give you an idea of what we do on an average day – sometimes exciting and sometimes mundane. Tuesday, February 21, 2017: Swakopmund to…
How Is Namibia Like Mars?
When most people think of countries in Africa, I’m sure that Namibia is not at the top of the list. With a small population of about 2.5 million people, it is one of the least-populated countries in the world. And…
Our Tour with Intrepid: Route and Schedule
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our time on tour with Intrepid. For 22 days, we joined the “Cape Town to Vic Falls: Basix” tour, along with three crew members and nine trip mates. One of…
A Friend in Cape Town
One of the benefits of my previous position at Techworld was meeting linguists located around the world, as I mentioned when I wrote about our time in Los Quirquinchos, Argentina with Pamela and her family. As luck would have it,…
Cape Town: What Did We Eat?
With two full weeks spent in and around Cape Town, we had a lot of time to indulge in their delightful culinary scene. While we didn’t eat much Cape Malay food (the local cuisine), we visited a variety of other…
A Tour of Robben Island
Out of all the attractions and things to do in Cape Town, the one that I knew we had to do was take a tour of Robben Island. It is impossible to visit South Africa without hearing of apartheid and…
What We Did in Cape Town
While in Africa, we spent our longest collective amount of time in Cape Town, South Africa. The city was our introduction to the continent and also our farewell. We spent nine days at the beginning of our time and five…
I Left My Heart in Africa
Since I think it’s probably pretty obvious that my blog is a few months behind, it will come as a surprise to no one that we have already gone to and left Africa. We only spent two months on the…