My sister Kari recently wrapped up a four-month, round-the-world trip via UVA’s Semester at Sea program. She will be stopping by here periodically throughout the next few months to regale you with tales from the ports. If you want to know anything specific about the trip, leave your questions in the comments, and she’ll answer [...]
Photo Friday: Table Mountain, South Africa
April 30, 2010 By 9 Comments
If you’re ever in Cape Town, the first thing people will tell you to do is summit Table Mountain, the city’s symbol, which stands proud and tall as a sentry on the perimeter of the city, casting a shadow over everything below it. It’s like coming to San Francisco and not visiting Alcatraz or vacationing [...]
Cool and Quirky Cape Town
April 27, 2010 By 18 Comments
Having traveled as much as I have—not to mention, having lived in Tennessee, Arizona, New York, Scotland, Holland, Denmark and California in the last decade—I so rarely arrive in a city and think: I could live here. I’m to the point where I like being settled, as far as a nomadic spirit like me can, [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Point, South Africa
April 23, 2010 By 14 Comments
…to be continued from last week’s Photo Friday. As we rounded the curve on a very windy coastal road leading out to Cape Town, we saw this suspicious silhouette… BABOON! A hitchhiking one at that, otherwise known as my father’s cousin. The funny thing is the peninsula is ridden with “Beware of Baboons” signage of [...]
Photo Friday: Boulders Beach, South Africa
April 16, 2010 By 18 Comments
When we found out their were penguins in South Africa, there was no question about it: My mom, sister and I would be making a day trip to see them, no matter how far. Luckily, they weren’t so far after all—just about a 45-minute drive from Cape Town on a very scenic route. So, armed [...]
Anchors Away: Eye to Eye with Jaws
April 12, 2010 By 24 Comments
This is one topic you likely thought you’d NEVER see on my site, given all the times I’ve talked about my biggest foe. Luckily, I have acquaintances even braver than I to make up for my lack of courage in some arenas. This guest blog is courtesy of Richard Luck, my sister Kari’s boyfriend whom [...]
You Know You’re in Africa When
April 8, 2010 By 13 Comments
Scene: We’re in the middle of Oudtshoorn trying to find our way to Cango, one of the ubiquitous ostrich farms, when a festival rendered many of the streets impassable. Enter: BlackBerry. Me: hello, I’m trying to reach your park and I saw a turn-off for the road but it was blocked. Girl on phone: yes, [...]
Anchors Away: Postcards from Asia
March 16, 2010 By 12 Comments
Since Kari clearly has better things to do than stop by this blog and regale you guys with her tales (ahem, Kari, ahem), here’s the consolidated version of what her last six weeks have entailed: Visiting Pearl Harbor and Okinawa; skiing in Nagano, Japan; hiking the Great Wall in China; playing with pandas in Hong [...]
They Say It’s Your Birthday
March 2, 2010 By 23 Comments
The funny thing about birthdays is that you think the older they become, the less of a big deal they are, beginning to taper off until it’s a week past the big day and you realize you completely forgot to even acknowledge the passing of another year. You think after 21, it’s all downhill, that [...]
The Age of Innocence
February 24, 2010 By 10 Comments
A week back in Birmingham and Memphis meant a week with this little angel, she of piercing blue eyes and a magnificent halo of boingy curls. Isn’t she divine? And a week with this little gal meant lots of photoshoots, which meant my final photography project was done on the first day. (Oh, I didn’t [...]
