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The International Journal of Sport and Leisure (Some sport. Some leisure. Also, schistosomiasis.) |
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* Cable Cars, Lentil Soup and Bart Simpson
* Cape Town * Cape Drear * Lows of Travel ("Welcome to Africa") * High Entertainment * Paradise or Miami Vice? (Part 2 of 2) * Paradise or Miami Vice? (Part 1 of 2) * Don't Make Me Cry, Argentina * Hago el Vago en Buenos Aires (Part III: Final Week) * Gloom at the Top * Its The End Of The World As I Know It * Perito Moreno Glacier * El Calafate
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March 30, 2005Cable Cars, Lentil Soup and Bart SimpsonCape Town, South Africa Wednesday, March 30, 2005: I snuck out of the hotel at 7:30 AM, relieved to successfully avoid running into rambling psychotic Robert in the dining room. I took a cab back to the lower cable car...Read this update March 29, 2005Cape TownCape Town, South Africa Tuesday, March 29, 2005: Since I hadn't had much to eat after a long night awake, I went to grab my breakfast in the dining room of the hotel at about 7:15 AM. Robert, the lodger...Read this update March 28, 2005Cape DrearCape Town, South Africa Sunday - Monday, March 27 - 28, 2005: My first two full days in Africa fell on the Sunday and Monday of the long Easter holiday when many shops were closed and the streets of Cape...Read this update March 26, 2005Lows of Travel ("Welcome to Africa")Johannesburg (Airport) to Cape Town, South Africa Saturday, March 26, 2005: Shortly after sunrise I disembarked from my plane from Brazil and set foot on the African Continent for the first time --- on a runway in Johannesburg International Airport....Read this update High EntertainmentRio de Janeiro, Brazil to Johannesburg, South Africa Friday - Saturday (morning), March 25 - 26, 2005: I woke up early and spent a gray rainy morning running some last minute errands in Copacabana with Mara graciously accompanying me as...Read this update March 24, 2005Paradise or Miami Vice? (Part 2 of 2)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sunday - Thursday, March 20 - 24, 2005: How to describe my time in Rio de Janeiro, the South American city that is probably most familiar to and most visited by Americans? It is a city...Read this update March 19, 2005Paradise or Miami Vice? (Part 1 of 2)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Saturday, March 19, 2005: How to describe my time in Rio de Janeiro, the South American city that is probably most familiar to and most visited by Americans? It is a city of beautiful beaches and...Read this update Don't Make Me Cry, ArgentinaBuenos Aires, Argentina (Morning) Saturday, March 19, 2005: I tried to go to sleep early so as to be well rested for the next day --- which would begin at 5 AM. In fact, I only slept for a little...Read this update March 17, 2005Hago el Vago en Buenos Aires (Part III: Final Week)Buenos Aires, Argentina Thursday, March 17, 2005: This is the third of three late general catch-up posts on my six or so weeks in total spent lazing around in Buenos Aires (apart from additional time spent outside the city in...Read this update March 10, 2005Gloom at the TopUshuaia, Argentina Thursday, March 10, 2005: The Grand Splendor of Nature; the Majesty of the untamed Wild. Who needs it? I thought I would see what all the fuss is about by trekking up the side of the mountain overlooking...Read this update March 09, 2005Its The End Of The World As I Know ItEl Calafate - Ushuaia, Argentina Wednesday, March 9, 2005: Ushuaia. This is the absolute end of the road. You cannot find a city south of where I am typing from because one does not exist. Sailing out of Ushuaia`s harbor...Read this update March 07, 2005Perito Moreno GlacierEl Calafate, Argentina Monday, March 7, 2005: Chris and I boarded a relatively empty bus waiting outside the Hotel at 7:45 AM to find it quickly fill up to capacity with other tourists --- perhaps some 40 or more in...Read this update March 06, 2005El CalafateEl Calafate, Argentina Sunday, March 6, 2005: I made it to Ezeiza International Airport by 7 AM and boarded my flight at 8:30. By 9 AM I was soaring south over the sprawling urban expanse of greater Buenos Aires and...Read this update |
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