Costa Rica. The Canadian Rockies. South Africa. These are all places I’ve taken my kids. I have nothing against Disney World. I’ve taken them there, too. (Once.) But Disney offers a perfectly fabricated adventure – and they do it better than anyone – and I want my kids to know all about the Continue Reading
This Momma Rhino was grazing with her calf. There are so many animals when you are on safari, you sort of get immunized to them. Ho hum. it's another crash of Rhinos. (ha! bet you didn't know that word!) But when you really stop to look at them - like at this Rhinoceros, for instance, they are, Continue Reading
Cape Town is a wonderful, beautiful, city. And I don’t feel we saw even a fraction of there was to see. We missed Robben Island, and the District Six Museum, we didn’t see the Aquarium. But we did love it. Still, I had the feeling, always, of being in an unusually beautiful and tropical European Continue Reading
I haven’t yet gotten to what most people think of as the most wonderful part of a trip to Africa, the Safari. But I cannot imagine that anything I will see on Safari will move me and thrill me as much as my trip to the township of Khaletsha did yesterday. Township is a word with many Continue Reading
Day two. And this is this breakfast spread that awaited me. Because, you know, who doesn’t want to gain a bazillion pounds on vacation? We spent the day with a tour guide. who took us to Camps Bay Beach, Cape Point National Park, The Cape of Good Hope (within the park), Boulders Beach, Continue Reading