Before I get to today’s main attraction, I have a little announcement to make… Yay! Appropriate timing, as the announcement was made during the Oscars—I gave my own acceptance speech inside my head (…or not)—and I’ll keep this brief but just wanted to extend a huge THANKS to every one of you who voted and/or [...]
Photo Friday: Bastia, Corsica
February 25, 2011 By 32 Comments
Wiping the drive of my aging Dell laptop that has been shoved under a bed collecting dust for the past five years, rendered useless by my three Macs, has unlocked so many memories for me—particularly of my second stint living in Europe in 2005, when I met SVV. During the same journalism program, we were [...]
10 Most Memorable Travel Moments
February 23, 2011 By 52 Comments
I usually shy away from listicles but a) it’s my birthday!, b) this is a fun one and c) I really want to win Gran Tourismo’s Feburary competition…so here goes. 1. Trekking with gorillas—and nearly being trampled by a “teenager”—in Rwanda. 2. Smuggling political refugees over the Italian border under my bed bunk in a [...]
The Garden Route: Baboons Take to the Tee
February 21, 2011 By 10 Comments
After leaving our new monkey friend behind in Plettenberg Bay, we headed back down the road an hour to Knysna. Here, we finally took a bit of a breather following 10 days of activity and rushed travel without pause. After spending the night at Pezula Resort—a five-star coastal sanctuary where big names like Roger Federer [...]
Photo Friday: Copenhagen, Denmark
February 17, 2011 By 33 Comments
SVV and I are in the throes of a quadruple back-up of our seven computers (yes, excessive), and in the process I came across a few random (low-res) Copenhagen files each of us took with our point-and-shoots when we lived over in Denmark that I hadn’t seen, well, since we lived in Denmark. It’s such [...]
The Garden Route: The Monkey Who Ate Our Lunch
February 16, 2011 By 21 Comments
This is the fourth stop on our trip along South Africa’s Garden Route. If you missed the eco-lodge in Gansbaii, the ostriches in Oudtshoorn and the elephants in Plettenberg Bay, go back and check them out first. ***** After we were through with the elephants, we started to head back to our lodge, Hog Hollow, [...]
The Garden Route: A Walk with Elephants
February 13, 2011 By 24 Comments
This is the third stop on my mom’s and my trip along the Garden Route last spring. If you missed the first installment in Gansbaii and the second in Oudtshoorn, go back and check them out first. ***** After we were sufficiently ostriched out, we continued our drive: heading back to the coast and up [...]
Photo Friday: Marrakech, Morocco
February 11, 2011 By 34 Comments
In 2005, the year I met SVV, my friend Megan and I were studying in Holland. Megan, daughter of an Air Force officer, had lived all over Europe growing up, and I had previously lived in Scotland and traveled much of Western Europe, so when our fall break rolled around, we wanted to do something [...]
The Garden Route: Ostriches in Oudtshoorn
February 9, 2011 By 47 Comments
This is day two on my trip along South Africa’s Garden Route. If you missed the first stop, Gansbaii, head on back a few days and check it out. ***** Sometimes you just want to be a tourist, and that’s how I felt about venturing into Oudtshoorn. The town is a diversion off the main [...]
The Garden Route: Skimming South Africa’s Coast
February 7, 2011 By 28 Comments
A year ago when my mom and I were planning our South African tour, I knew we wanted to see more than just Cape Town and a game park. Neither of us had been there before—in fact, it was our first time in Africa, period—and we’d allotted nearly three weeks to explore. I’d heard of [...]
