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As we arrived home after so many months of wandering, my blogging friend, Sunee from Sunee Sees the World, nominated me to participate in the 7 Links Game started by Tripbase, where bloggers make a list of 7 past posts, which might be favorites, or most commented, or most helpful. The timing seems fitting [...]  At Giants Castle, a group of Zulu dancers showed up. I was midway into a nap when the drums started. Well worth the wake-up, though. Dancing is for Zulu men and girls before they are married. The drums are quite loud, and I would imagine that even just the drumming is very athletic, [...] OK- finally Vimeo is working and so is our internet. This is the video from Oudtshoorn and our Ostrich riding experience! Ostrich Ride South Africa from John Gill on Vimeo. Women with their laundry in the river in KwaZulu Natal An umuzi, or traditional Zulu homestead, in KwaZulu Natal Driving through an area of the KwaZulu Natal close to the Drakensberg, we came across two women carrying huge baskets of laundry on their heads, taking them to the river to do their wash. Beautiful [...]
The family looking up at the Sani Pass, which is impassable due to a rock slide. We tried again to venture into the tiny kingdom of Lesotho. We spent a week circling around the outside, exploring the ring of mountains which cradle it. We moved most every night, a wandering path that gave little time [...] Without question, the hardest part of our lives at home to leave for this trip around the world was our dogs, Ayla and Sadie. More than our cats or horses or house or things. OK, maybe or maybe not more than our friends, but equal at any rate. They are our canine children and siblings, [...]
Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa We stood at the customs window in a sort of shock. We’d planned a little sojourn into Lesotho, a tiny kingdom landlocked in the mountains within South Africa, two days of driving and exploring. “You must write down the serial number of every camera, laptop, recording device, and [...] Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa Leaping on the suspension bridge at the mouth of the Storms River, Tsitsikamma, South Africa A section of the Otter Trail over the rocks A view from the Otter Trail near Storms River. The seas were too rough and we were unable to go kayaking into the mouth. Building [...] Bloukrans Bridge, Tsitsikamma, home to the world’s highest commercial bungy jump. Hannah was nervous for days. We had heard about the bungy jump from Bloukrans Bridge and checked the minimum age for jumpers. It was 14. This meant that she had no excuse, other than her own fear, to hold her back from making the [...] A vervet monkey in Baviaanskloof watching us. Little did we know he was thinking of sandwiches. A troop of vervet monkeys just came through our camp. About six of them are still crashing about in the thicket lining the side of our space, grey with black faces, small dark hands and feet gripping the acacia [...]
The open entry into the tree house. It’s interesting how perception and expectation create our comfort level and how stories of unfamiliar places become blurred. What is really an isolated incident, the small dot of paint is smeared by the mind’s palm across the whole map. Even knowing this, I fall victim to my own [...] Ostrich Ride South Africa from John Gill on Vimeo. An ostrich pulled wagon at Highgate Ostrich Showfarm “I want to hold a baby cheetah!” Hannah was almost beside herself with excitement when she found information about the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn. The movie Duma has long been a favorite of both girls, and the idea that we might get to interact with these impressive cats was a big draw. We were [...] We spent a lifetime on the ranch, connecting people who live in cities to horses and the outdoors. Now, on the opposite side of the world, we’ve immersed ourselves in South African agriculture. We’ve learned that the reeds used for thatch grow only between the Breede and Gourits Rivers, and the plants take at least [...] Several months ago, Marlie chose South Africa as her top choice of places to visit on our family trip around the world. As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, this is a child who dreams of a life as a marine biologist, studying jellyfish and sea slugs. Seriously. She has talked about this dream unceasingly for [...] |
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