http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes Its going to take me my whole life, but I'll get there. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:42:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats sitting on a rocky cliff overlooking an ocean whose color and clarity is stunning, with a cocktail in hand as its effects slowly trickle through your system! Its like a rip of a sheet of paper that I have to pick up from here within ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/a-life-lived-in-flipflops-with-a-side-of-margaritas.html Can you imagine traveling to a new place as did the explorers to the New World..? expecting maybe a tribe of natives and stumbling upon a city of 100k people with agriculture, aquaculture and architecture to rival ones own civilization? I mean really... stop and think about how world ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/my-my-maya-whats-happened-here.html Eh, long time no? It has been, since I've been traveling anywhere but between Tampa, NYC, Charleston and my parents houses. But no longer, boy do I have some travel planned! And speaking of long times.... the sudden once a decade frost bite that has bitten ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/girl-gone-mild.html Still entralled with my cloistered lifestyle behind the palace walls, I woke up this morning to utter luxury and to breakfast in bed, still sore from whitewater rafting in what seemed to be a world away. I had questions. They were the first questions I asked my driver when I got in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/apartheid-separation-and-history-in-south-africa.html After what seems like an eternity of living in either tents, huts, or sketchy hotels with mystery lumps in the bed, where you definitely didn't want to run barefoot across the floor, I was ecstatic to get into my room at the Peech Hotel in Johannesburg. Jo'burg is rife with tales ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/complete-and-utterbliss-in-joburg.html The place we had stayed in Livingstone has to be up there in the top 5 worst places I have ever stayed.   It really didn't matter because really it was just a bed to use, but its worth noting that in the budget accommodations to stay at, this place should ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/yuckier-than-a-tent-and-a-mudhut-by-far.html Let me just start by saying I've been white water rafting before. Several times actually, maybe half a dozen. Some meandering, some exhilerating, one with members of my family bailing their boat into mine. One recently with a family who ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/whitewater-on-the-zambezi.html Dr Livingstone we presume?  Once our group got through the border ordeal we headed for the Falls. Right through Livingstone, where we are actually staying. We are here in a 'high water' season, and because of very heavy rains the water is more massive then usual.Traditionally, Victoria Falls ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/the-discovery-of-victoria-falls.html Crossing borders is my favorite - there is nothing like watching the crossroads of 3rd world life, bureaucracy, ferries, produce, products, businessmen, truckers and the odd little face of a tourist or two toting backpacks and looking out of place. Some scared, some harrassed looking, and some barely noticing ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/the-continuing-story-of-border-crossings.html The Botswanan people are some of the most genuinely friendly and helpful people I've met recently.   They have glowing smiles, easy laughs and seem to feel quite at home accepting cultural differences.   There is also a mild reserved-ness which I think comes from not wanting to be at odds with ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JessieGoes/botswanan-smiles-trials-and-chobe-park.html