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Buildings in Bangkok, Thailand from the river. On our first day out in Bangkok, we were looking for Songkran, the Thai new year’s festival that involves a lot of water. We did find the party, eventually. First, we were re-directed on a little shake-down cruise by tuk tuk drivers. We arrived at Siam sky train [...]  Arriving at the apartment, we were still soaked and covered in chalk paste. We saw it in the in-flight magazine first. We were landing in Bangkok during the biggest party of the year and had no idea. It offset the knowledge that we were also landing during the hottest time of the year, when the [...] This morning might have been our last snorkeling outing in the Seychelles. We were at Felicity Island today, our last full day on the Catamaran. From here we have three nights on Praslin, and then we fly out to Thailand. Marlie and I followed a sea turtle for a while on our way back to [...] On La Digue Island there are no private cars. A few taxis, transports, and oxcarts. Otherwise it is bicycles. Loving it. Just another banana republic? They have our passports. And, our airline tickets out of here. What would have taken a couple of minutes at the airport as we arrived has taken more than a [...]
The San of the Kalahari lit their fire with the friction of sticks. On this fire, they made us a meal of nuts, squash, wildebeest, and beetles gathered and hunted from the desert. As we’ve wandered through southern Africa the past few months, the magic of travel has given us some interesting juxtaposed experiences: Cattle [...] We’ve been wandering about Botswana, and I am afraid I’ve not had much time to keep up with the blog. Partly because we have been moving around so much, and partly because we’ve had too much stuff in too small of a camper making daily life rubiks cube living. Shifting bags constantly to make room [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Our wandering brings some interesting juxtapositions, showing us the full story by coincidence. Driving out of Baviaanskloof into the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, we were surrounded by citrus orchards. Looking for a place to spend the night, we happened upon a sweet little guest house overlooking rows of lemon trees. We watched the tractor [...] 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 |
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