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Attitudes. Latitudes: Getting Back To Cape Town
/2 Comments/in Africa, South Africa, Travelogue /by allanMaking my way back to Cape Town I try my best not to tread over the same ground I’d before. Curious to see one of the oldest towns in South Africa I set my sites on Graff-Reinet. Cruising across the “Grand Karoo” with its scrubby rough terrain, proud buttes rising from the desert floor and […]
Celebrating And Getting Ready For Namibia.
/7 Comments/in Travelogue /by allanThanks to all of you who somehow have remembered that today is my birthday and sent me notes, cards and e-mails!!! And thanks so much to those of you who have put a few dollars in my gas can through my PayPal or Amazon Accounts. The support and help is appreciated and I will put […]
Leaving Lesotho
/2 Comments/in Africa, Lesotho, South Africa, Travelogue /by allanThe Lesotho plate features an icon of the traditional straw woven hats the traditional Sotho people wear while working the fields or tending livestock. I’ve come to endear Lesotho. Maybe it’s because of the extremely friendly people, the smiles on the faces of children or the spectacular mountain scenery and primitive villages. It’s unfortunate I […]
Landing In The Kingdom In The Sky
/4 Comments/in Africa, Lesotho, Travelogue /by allanBy the time I stopped I had counted five or six waterfalls. Given the amount of rain I’d been through for the last two weeks, it was no wonder. But riding through this majestic valley of gently rolling fertile hills punctuated by harsh and ominous croppings of rock, the waterfalls tumbled down from cliffs more […]
Coffee Bay to the Drakensburg (sort of)
/3 Comments/in Africa, South Africa, Travelogue /by allanSouth Africa’s Wild Coast – between the ripping currents of the Indian Ocean and the mountains to the north is the “Transkei” a magical, mysterious and scenic part of South Africa and birthplace of South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. My time in Coffee Bay on South Africa’s “Wild Coast” was well spent. The “chill” […]
Xhosa, The Transkei and Coffee Bay.
/3 Comments/in Africa, South Africa, Travelogue /by allanTucked in cozy nook in the Amathole Mountains, Hogsback and the surrounding old growth forest, waterfalls and the canopy and odd shaped twists, turns and hanging strands of foliage and tree branches apparently was the inspiration for South African-born J.R. Tolkien and his wildly popular series of Fantasy books including The Hobbit and the Lord […]
Happy Birthday Mom
/2 Comments/in Travelogue /by allanHappy Birthday Audrey Karl-Shaff! Mom and my brother Jon decanting a bottle of wine in South Dakota in the shadow of Mount Rushmore!