Our Life Walkabout

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One of the things I didn’t necessarily want this blog to be was a day by day itinerary of what we did because normally I found the travel blogs I read that did this to be somewhat boring and [...]

Kruger National Park, or KNP, has to be one of the most amazing self-catered self-tours anyone can do with wildlife. While our time in Mkuzi park earlier in the visit was amazing in a different way, KNP is amazing in that anyone can do this with a simple rental car in a [...]

This is especially for my nephews who have wanted to hear and see about our Great White Shark cage diving tour in Gansbaai. I knew I had to do this when we came to S Africa because it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. We’ve all probably seen portions of “shark week” or something [...]

While in S. Africa we were able to stay at a friend of a friend’s game farm (thanks Ali and Steve!) in Eastern South Africa. Mkuzi game reserve borders another famous reserve Phinda and several years ago both reserves negotiated to “drop fences” between the two reserves. The gracious man who allowed us [...]

Erinn and were lucky enough to spend one night in a private game reserve called Sabi Sands right outside of Kruger National Park (there actually isn’t a fence between the parks). While the price isn’t cheap the reward was being able to see leopards and a pride of lions feeding on a dead elephant up [...]

“Humanity was born in Africa. All people ultimately, are African.”

“The cell is an ideal place to know yourself. People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishment, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones, such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.” [...]

It’s hitting already how much the rest of the world follows and knows American politics… better than I. This was evident as we saw a billboard with two local S. African news reporters surrounding guess who – Barack Obama!! We also met three men in the first 2-3 days of our trip who were excited [...]