Statistics Days: 23. We spent two separate periods in South Africa: the first from February 3-14 and the second from March 10-22, 2017. Cities: 12. Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Table View, Cederburg, Johannesburg, Addo, Jeffrey’s Bay, Stormsriver, The Crags, Knsyna, Wilderness,…
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, March 21, 2017: Cape Town,…
To round out our time in Africa, Jon and I decided to take a road trip across the Garden Route of South Africa; the southern coast. We allocated one week and rented a small white Nissan Micra upon arrival at…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…