Save the Best for Last

On my last day in South Africa, somewhere between suffering over two hours sleep, returning my (scratched, grrrrrr) rental car, and packing, I went on a game drive with my friend Mostafa and some friends of his.
The game drive was different from the safari in Pilansberg because the animals are not in such a wild [...]

At the End of the World

This is how it is at the end of the world. Two Transylvanians with an expensive camera, a Catalan Independentist, a Canadian and her penguin… all arriving in a blue convertible Mini-Cooper.
The Cape of Good Hope: the emotional and metaphorical, if not actually factual, tip of the continent.

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The long and pot-holed road

I wasn’t too impressed at three o’clock in the morning when someone suggested that this journey would be a great story for my grand kids. Sitting by the side of a dark road with cars whizzing by, waiting for the car in front to change a tire while listening to the constant click of [...]

Nueva Aventura

This was the best idea in the world. Even during take-off I had that old excited feeling that I don’t get much any more when flying. The absolute delight of leaving a place without feeling pulled into pieces over it, knowing I’ll miss certain things, but not too many. And the feeling [...]