I was in a speeding car with three other people, careening toward the Orlando Towers -- a decommissioned-power-station-turned-entertainment/adventure-center -- in Soweto. "I wonder if they're going to make us bungee?" someone asked. "There's no way [...]
Sorry for the delay in my final #GoToReunion blog post. I can't believe my Reunion Island trip was two months ago. (Where has the time gone?!) I was delayed because it took me a while to [...]
I've just returned from a weeklong trip to Reunion Island with six other blogger/writer/photographers, as part of a camapign called #GoToReunion. We experienced so many amazing things during those seven days; by the end of the week I [...]
I'm a strong believer in limited exclamation point usage, which is why the above exclamation point appears in parentheses. (I underuse exclamation points but I overuse parentheses, as you can see from this sentence. Go [...]
We round a bend and there it is: a metal gate with a sign for Dwesa/Cwebe Nature Reserve. Finally! I was starting to feel like we'd never make it. Now we'll have just enough [...]
The Commonwealth Games, an Olympics-like sporting competition involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, are headed to Durban in 2022. The 2022 host city won't be officially announced until September 2015, but it turns out that [...]
I've already mentioned my birthday bungee jump a couple of times (see posts here and here), but it's taken me more than a month to edit the video footage from the GoPro camera I wore during [...]
I'm in Knysna this week, as a guest of the Knysna Oyster Festival. When I originally got this invitation a few months ago, I accepted because I'd heard Knysna is lovely and I knew it [...]
Nearly four years after my move from America to South Africa, I'm still disturbed by holiday season-inversion. Celebrating Christmas in summer is surreal, and I will never adjust to my July birthday -- which used to [...]