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Tranquility Falls

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

On our first day in The Manor Cottage, Chris told us about a 25 minute hike up the mountain near our home to a waterfall. It sounded much more interesting than work, so the kids and I headed up to explore.

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So Far South, It’s COLD!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Today we are headed to Cape Town. It is where we plan on calling home for the next month or so. Neither Carl nor I have ever been to the Cape before, we both hope we like it. The nice thing about remaining flexible in our plans, is we can change them if things don’t work out like we expect.

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Making Friends Anywhere & Everywhere

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
The best part of traveling is meeting people along the way. Hostels provide a great way to meet other travelers. Everyone is of the same mindset in the “backpackers”. They want to see a lot and travel ... [Continue reading this entry]

Kruger – The South

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
The southern part of the park is closer to Johannesburg has better highways and seems to have more animals. Unfortunately this all means there are more, much more, people. Actually most visitors to the park never get as ... [Continue reading this entry]

Kruger – The Center

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Time to move to a new lodge. We were up again before the sun and packed all of our things into our mighty Opel Zafira. Sunrise is an amazing time for photography and we were ready to capture ... [Continue reading this entry]

Kruger – The North

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
We entered the Punda Maria gate before 9am. After a smooth entry through the park service personnel we were in. We were instantly rewarded with warthog running down the middle of the road! A few minutes later ... [Continue reading this entry]

Time to Move On

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Our Opel Zafira mini-van was delivered on time this morning, although the paperwork and rental details were grossly out of order. Renting cars can be a real challenge when you don’t know the type of car you will end ... [Continue reading this entry]

Some Down Time

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
As we mentioned a few days ago, we decided to move to a new backpacker since the last one was a little run down, dirty, dark and cold. What do you expect for very little money? Once we ... [Continue reading this entry]

Soweto and Townships

Saturday, August 20th, 2005
Today we awoke with the great anticipation of taking a trip to Soweto. We hired our own tour guide, instead of going with a big group. Since we have our own agenda regarding photography and education for ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cheetahs and Wild Dogs

Saturday, August 20th, 2005
OK. It has been more than two weeks since we posted. We had problems with the weblog as some of you know from logging in about ten days or so ago and seeing an error message. After ... [Continue reading this entry]