A range of 5 to 12 hours to cover ~200 kilometers – those are the estimates I was given for the trip. The ‘good’ road, the A3, from Katse to Thaba Teska and then on to Mokhlotong I already knew … Read More
While Avital and Eliav went with the lodge children to recruit village kids for the Sunday matinee showing of The Lorax, I engaged in the traditional Basotho activity of working with the lady at the kiosk to carefully cut a … Read More
Our first self-drive safari could not have gone better. Though Addo lacks the huge herds and wide open savanna of some other parks we will visit we still had amazing encounters with the wildlife. We saw the big ones from … Read More
We had our first opportunity to braai over a wood fire – we had steaks last night, tonight its boerewors. This was just one of many firsts for us over the last few days, our first gravel mountain pass, our … Read More
Let me introduce you to Aardwolf, she is the closest we have to a home for the next few months. It’s pretty amazing the number of dimensions I have to get used to to treat her right – I drive … Read More
The day plus of travel to Cape Town was remarkably unremarkable. By my calculations, the 26 hour trip door-to-door was 14 hours longer than Avital and Eliav’s previous record. Yet, they were amazingly good – no meltdowns, no notable misbehavior … Read More
In one week I’m going to Africa for the summer, my first trip out of the Americas. I am excited, but at the same time have some fears I hope to overcome. My biggest fear is screaming when I see … Read More