November 23rd, 2005
It was sad to leave Jeffreys Bay this morning - the small beach town world-renowned for its surf break, dominated by Quiksilver and Billabong. But places to go, people to see. We drove...
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November 22nd, 2005
For the past week, I've been practicing the hands out motion by falling face forward on a bed. I tried to prepare myself mentally for what it would be like with toes over the edg...
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November 22nd, 2005
Tanya and I left Mossel Bay this morning, and took a detour from the Garden Route to check out the Highgate Ostrich Farm. The tour began with a look at how they make feather dust...
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November 20th, 2005
Today made the lion encounter look tame.
Gansbaai is the great white shark capital of the world. The competition among various cage diving companies is almost as intense as t...
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November 19th, 2005
We weren’t as lucky with the weather today. Fierce winds blew our plans to paraglide out the window. Tanya and I told the company that we didn’t mind being knocked around a b...
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November 18th, 2005
Yay! A picture of Tanya! Taken by yours truly at The Cape of Good Hope, the southern most tip of Africa.
The coastal drive to get there was spectacular. The landscap...
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November 18th, 2005
Since Tanya and I arrived in Cape Town late at night, I woke up the next morning with no idea of how beautiful the city is. I didn’t even know that Table Mountain, its most famous...
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November 12th, 2005
Ever since I was little, I dreamed of Africa. I owned every Playmobile lion and elephant the company produced. My dad and I rushed to the zoo on rainy days, for we knew the animals are more...
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November 7th, 2005
I was white. Jen and Tanya were non-white. That was the first thing (arbitrarily) decided as we entered the Apartheid Museum. We got over our differences, however, as we toured the var...
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November 7th, 2005
I’ve got the routine down: arrive in the Bangkok airport in the morning, 400 Baht taxi to the Regency Park Hotel, put my bags in the room with all of the other stuff I left behind, t...
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