An Inventure in the Great Karoo
17 May 2025 The day starts with walking across the freezing river in the dark with bare feet and a head lamp. Fuck this shit, I think, as we toil up a nearly vertical [...]
Exploring Eswatini and the Barberton Geotrail
I’ve been to Swaziland many times. During my early years in South Africa, Swaziland felt almost like a second home to me. But I hadn’t been to Swaziland since it was renamed Eswatini in [...]
Mpumalanga, Part 2: Glamping at Kokiville Homestead
As discussed previously – what now seems like an eternity ago – Thorsten and I took a road trip through Mpumalanga province over the Christmas holidays. Our final stop on that trip was Kokiville [...]
Meandering Through Mpumalanga: The Panorama Route
In December, the Blogitects embarked on an 11-day journey across Mpumalanga province (with a brief interlude in Eswatini). We spent the first few days in the southern half of the Panorama Route. Thorsten standing [...]
Photos From Braamfontein’s Indwe Park
I've been dreadfully uninspired lately, struggling to think of anything I want to blog about despite having a long list of great ideas (many of which you, my readers, provided in September). I'm finding [...]
Mtunzini: A Beachy, Foresty Place in the Shade
Our recent visit to St. Lucia was a stop along the way to the final destination of our KwaZulu-Natal road trip: Mtunzini, a coastal town off the N2 highway, where we spent five days [...]
Two Days in St. Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal
St. Lucia, the tourist town along South Africa's northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coast -- not to be confused with St. Lucia the Caribbean island -- has near-mythical status among South Africans. The town is completely [...]
The Blogitects Roadtrip to Augrabies Falls
As mentioned previously, Thorsten and I (a.k.a. "the Blogitects": one blogger + one architect) recently got back from a roadtrip to the Northern Cape to celebrate my 50th birthday. I had never properly explored [...]
Hiking the Drakensberg’s Spectacular Tugela Gorge
The Drakensberg Mountains fly under the radar in South Africa's tourism scene. Everyone goes to Cape Town and the Kruger and the Garden Route, but the Drakensberg doesn't often make it onto that "must-see" [...]
Ezemvelo: Great Hiking Close to Joburg
Those of you who follow me on Instagram may have noticed I've been hiking a lot lately. I've always loved to hike. But for some reason -- maybe because I now have a car [...]
The Blogitects Do Limpopo: Marakele National Park
I am way behind in publishing this final installment of the Blogitects' December Limpopo roadtrip. (Read the first three installments here, here, and here.) Marakele National Park was our last stop on the journey [...]
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 [...]