Throwback to Rosendal, a Lesotho Stopover
In April 2025, Thorsten and I spent two nights in the town of Rosendal on our way home from Semonkong, Lesotho. This trip is seriously old news by now, but I'm blogging about it [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Leshiba Wilderness
Leshiba Wilderness was the third stop on the Blogitects' Limpopo road trip. Read about our first and second stops. Like last week, I don't know how to start writing this post because I don't [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Mapungubwe National Park
Mapungubwe National Park was the second stop on the Blogitects' Limpopo road trip. Read about our first and third stops. I've been procrastinating on this post about Mapungubwe National Park because I don't know [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Magoebaskloof
Magoebaskloof was the first stop on the Blogitects’ Limpopo road trip. Read about our second and third stops. As I mentioned in my previous post, Thorsten and I (a.k.a. the Blogitects) took a 10-day road trip [...]
The Blogitects Do America
Thorsten and I just returned to Joburg after a long trip to the U.S. -- I was there for a month and Thorsten joined me for three weeks. We had a fun, emotional, hilarious, [...]
The Blogitects’ Excellent (Mis)adventures in KwaZulu-Natal, Part 3
Before reading this post, read Part 1 and Part 2 of the Blogitects’ Excellent (Mis)adventures. After our double-tire-puncture fiasco, Thorsten and I were stranded at the entrance to the Tembe Elephant Park (about an hour from [...]
The Blogitects’ Excellent (Mis)adventures in KwaZulu-Natal, Part 1
Thorsten and I, a.k.a. the Blogitects (one blogger, one architect), recently took a much-anticipated road trip through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. It was a very exciting trip but it did not go as planned. [...]
The Blogitects Spend a Night in Wild Wepener
I waited until the last minute before deciding where to stay on the last night of the Blogitect Road Trip. The first eight nights of the trip were meticulously planned, but I delayed choosing [...]
Pilgrimage to the Big Pineapple
I'm not sure when I first saw a photo of the Big Pineapple. It might have been in a blog post, or maybe somewhere on Instagram. But I do know one thing for certain: [...]
A Visitor’s Guide to Bathurst
Last year, before the pandemic, I started a campaign called #10SouthAfricanTowns. I planned to visit ten small towns all over South Africa during 2020. Bathurst, 20 kilometers inland from Port Alfred in the Eastern [...]
Back to Bethulie and the Royal Hotel
Six years ago, during a wild road trip in a van full of bloggers, I spent a night at the Royal Hotel in Bethulie. I was enchanted: Bethulie is a charming, tiny South African [...]
Phyllis Drives the Blogitects to the Eastern Cape and Back
Thorsten and I decided to take a long road trip from Joburg to the Eastern Cape, down through the Free State to the Sunshine Coast and back. We were super excited and had everything [...]