The Fantasy Coffins of Ghana
Yesterday I was taking pictures in a cemetery and I got into a conversation about coffins. And suddenly, I remembered: In 2014 I met an artist in Ghana who builds "fantasy coffins" that look like [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Terbodore Coffee Roasters
Last weekend Ray and I took a road trip to the Midlands -- a scenic region in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Province, between Durban and the Drakensberg Mountains -- and stayed at a lovely [...]
Pop-Up Travel: The Nelson Mandela Capture Site
Earlier this week, I saw a photo of the Nelson Mandela Capture Site on my friend Meruschka's Instagram feed. Meruschka's post reminded me that I visited the Nelson Mandela Capture Site nearly a year [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Dullstroom Bird of Prey Centre
It's been a while since I wrote a pop-up travel post -- a post about a place that I traveled to a long time ago, nearly forgot, then remembered and decided to write about. Today's [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Addo Elephant National Park
I visited Addo Elelphant National Park about a year-and-a-half ago as part of a blogger trip to Port Elizabeth. Addo is one of South Africa's largest national parks and one of the best places in [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Quirky Jewelry Shopping in Accra
Shockingly, my whirlwind trip to Ghana was nearly a year ago and I did a few things there that I still need to tell you about. My visit to Hakim Jewelart in Accra is one of [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Paraty, Brazil
My trip to Brazil is almost a distant memory now, but there is still one part of the trip that I haven't told you much about. In between Christmas and New Years my family and I [...]
Pop-Up Travel: A Beautiful Church in Zimbabwe
Last November I visited Zimbabwe with Ray's family. During that trip, while driving back to Harare after our holiday in Nyanga, we turned off the A14 highway at a small sign for St. Faith's High School. [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Ilha Grande, Brazil
At the end of my recent trip to Brazil, my family and I spent two days on an island called Ilha Grande. Ilha Grande is reachable only by boat (ferries to Ilha Grande leave from [...]
Pop-Up Travel: Cane Rats in Ghana
Warning: This post contains graphic photos. I have a lot of unfinished blogging business from 2014. I still haven't shared everything from my most recent trip to Brazil, nor from my Zimbabwe trip before that nor my Ghana trip before that. [...]