Last year when I was visiting my sister in Cape Town during her own Semester at Sea voyage, we didn’t stop sight-seeing the entire six days we were in the Western Cape. This time was different, as I had to work much of the four days there after my weekend away in Langebaan. Each morning [...]
Photo Friday: Tsaarbank, South Africa
October 28, 2011 By 26 Comments
Are you sick of South Africa yet? No? Good. It seems silly perhaps, but even though my first visit to South Africa was only 18 months ago, I’m pretty sure my blog has more posts dedicated to the country than any one place. But what can you do? It’s not my fault South Africa is [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Peninsula, South Africa
October 21, 2011 By 36 Comments
After our extremely relaxing weekend on the West Coast, we returned to Cape Town, where I worked the following three days, pretty much from 6:30am until late afternoon daily, before going out somewhere delicious to eat each evening. (South Africa does a lot of things right, but at the very top of that list is [...]
Photo Friday: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
October 7, 2011 By 22 Comments
Back in July after we left Cape Cod, we continued down the coast and used Providence, Rhode Island as our base for the last two nights of our New England vacation. Only we did zero exploring of Providence and, the next morning, made straight for the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard—after nearly missing it, that is, [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Coast, Ghana
September 30, 2011 By 16 Comments
Some years, the M/V Explorer docks in Takoradi, which is much closer in proximity to the Cape Coast. Due to a too-short berth Takoradi granted the ship, our Semester at Sea itinerary was changed to dock in Tema instead, which was a bit of a shame only because there were so many small fishing villages [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
September 23, 2011 By 28 Comments
When I lived in New York, I had many friends from New England who would talk about summering in the Hamptons or Cape Cod, a concept completely foreign to me, as most Southerners I know make for the Florida Panhandle when the beach comes calling. When SVV and I were in Boston with my parents [...]
Photo Friday: Marrakech, Morocco
September 16, 2011 By 32 Comments
I spent more than two hours writing a blog post to accompany these photos, and when I hit “save” WordPress kindly gave me a blank form and has no record of my work. I am at my wit’s end with WordPress—and will likely be switching platforms when I launch Camels & Chocolate 3.0 this winter [...]
Photo Friday: Casablanca, Morocco
September 9, 2011 By 42 Comments
When we arrived in Morocco last Saturday, it wasn’t exactly the sexy image you might expect to see: But I’d venture to say that all 900 of us aboard the M/V Explorer were so happy to see land after an eight-day Atlantic crossing that any sign of stationary life was a happy sight. The nice [...]
Photo Friday: Boston, Massachusetts
September 2, 2011 By 27 Comments
Boston is one of my favorite American cities, and I got the chance to visit not once, but twice in the past month—first with my family after our Montreal to Boston cruise, and then with just my husband after we did the reverse route as the first leg of Semester at Sea. Since SVV and [...]
Photo Friday: Montreal, Canada
August 26, 2011 By 36 Comments
Montreal is one of those cities that is pretty darn impossible not to like. I visited for the first time in 2007, found myself there on family vacation for the first couple days in July and—funny enough—am back right now, currently signing in 450 college students (and 73 lifelong learners) so we can set sail [...]
