http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms Visit us at www.GroomsGlobeTrek.com Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:27:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Day 59 The best thing about traveling is experiencing new things each day. Now that we are on the road again, those experiences are coming fast and furious again. It’s awesome. Today I got a chance to ride my dinner. This doesn’t happen at home. Cows, pigs, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/hope-you-are-hungry.html Day 58 The sun is directly overhead but it is cold. Since it has been warm all day, I don’t have my fleece on and the sweat on my back is giving me a chill. We are at an elevation of 4,000 feet. The wind is blowing at ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/a-cold-day-in-hell.html Day 55 Our time in Cape Town is getting short. At least our time in the Western Cape, as we are heading out to do the Garden Route next week. So today we headed north-east out of town for a drive that last just over an hour and a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/wine-route-redux.html Days 52, 53 and 54 This is our last full week in Cape Town. Where the heck has the time gone? So it’s the week to catch up on all the little activities we told ourselves we were going to do while we are here. On the menu ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/birds-wine-and-walls.html Day 50 I have been looking forward to today for a week now. Today we got a chance to photograph our cleaning lady Angelina and her two beautiful daughters aged 7 and 12. Most of our portraits on the road haven’t been prearranged by any stretch of the imagination, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/angelina.html Day 48 Table Mountain is probably the best named hunk of rock in the world. It is a 3,000 foot high mountain that towers above Cape Town, with smaller arms that reach out and hug the city from two sides. Thus the center of the city is often referred ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/table-mountain.html Day 47 It is amazing how much work we create for ourselves. We find ourselves spending time keeping up with accounting, filing and keywording our images, web-site building and upkeep as well as this web log. This does not even consider school work. It seems we are ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/far-south.html Day 46 After photographing animals and landscapes for so long, it was time to add to our collection of Faces of Africa for the book. Today we woke up early and headed to town to meet Sam for a Township Tour. After Soweto, this would be our third venture ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/township-tour.html Day 42 Once again we were off like a heard of turtles this morning. It wasn’t much before noon before the gang was together and we headed east once again. As I eluded to in yesterday’s blog, today is wine day. The primary wine making land in the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/wine-and-food.html Day 41 With Carl and his mom, Joan in town we got up early and got math behind us so we could join them on a day along the coast. We had been putting off a few things we have wanted to do so that we could do them with ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Carlton-Grooms/whale-watching.html