Better Make Way For The Young Folks in Egypt
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011I have been glued to Aljazeera on my computer for a week. I am bleary-eyed. This youtube video posted today was a bit uplifting. Notice all the women.
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Following Uprising in Egypt on Twitter
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Protests going on from early morning and people will remain in Tahrir Square all night. It’s spread all over the country and other countries. Three dead. It’s after midnight there and twitter, cell phone, TV and all the rest have now gone down but there are some iconic pics that have been coming out of Egypt. And YouTube is full of video. This uprising is a really big deal! Even a friend in Serbia is all but afraid to hope.
My fav post:
Lessons of Tunisia:
To the Arab dictators: u r not invincible.
To the West: u r not needed.
To the Arab people: u r not powerless
There is hope tonight.
Trouble In Egypt
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
An explosion has taken place in the ancient area of Al Hussein-Cairo, Egypt, the number of killed and wounded is still unsettled. How the bomb was exploded is not exactly specified. It's the most glorified and valued area for Egyptian ... [Continue reading this entry]
Dual Pricing
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Found a hilarious travel article on Bootnall today about the luxury tax...or dual pricing for foreigners as it is called:
The Luxury Tax - Asia, Europe, South America
By: Adam Jeffries Schwartz
The following is a guide to how the luxury tax is ... [Continue reading this entry]
The Looming Tower
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Have recently finished the acclaimed "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright which is a history of Islamic radical fundamentalism beginning in the 1930's and 40's and ending with the bombing of the World Trade Center. Including the ridiculous and ... [Continue reading this entry]
Ghandi-India To So Africa
Thursday, July 18th, 2002
In my last story, I mistakenly said that Gandi was born in South Africa. He was not. He was born in 1869 in Porbander in the Indian state of Gujarat where his father was chief minister.
He attended law ... [Continue reading this entry]
Sleepover In Soweto
Friday, July 12th, 2002
A Sleepover in Soweto-Africa's largest township
On our way to India we stopped in Johannesburg for two days to stay with Lolo Mabitsela in her Bed and Breakfast in Soweto-a township about 30 minutes outside ... [Continue reading this entry] Hout Bay Township Tour
Thursday, June 27th, 2002
Just outside Cape Town we visited a squatter's camp where poor people including immigrants from Zimbabwe and Algeria, who were not allowed to live in Cape Town prior to apartheid, live on "no man's land" and try to find fishing ... [Continue reading this entry]
Table Mountain & District 6
Tuesday, June 25th, 2002
The geographical configuration of the city of Cape Town at the foot of Table Mountain is as beautiful as everyone has said it is. We took the cable car to the top of ... [Continue reading this entry] Robben Island
Monday, June 17th, 2002
June 16 to July 13, 2002
Standing bunched shoulder-to-shoulder in the small anteroom of the prison on Robben Island where Mandela and others were political prisoners, our half of the ferry load of visitors impatiently ... [Continue reading this entry] Bo Kaap or Cape Malay Quarter
Monday, June 17th, 2002
The next day we take a minibus for 3 rand each (10 rand to a dollar) to look for an apartment. The buses are many and frequent with no schedule-you just wave one down when you need it-very ... [Continue reading this entry]
Cape Town!
Sunday, June 16th, 2002
June 15, 16, 2002
James make an unbelievable maneuver with the truck into the Lions Head Lodge & Backpacker Compound around a corner and in between parked cars on both sides of the street. We ... [Continue reading this entry] Citrusdal and The Baths
Friday, June 14th, 2002
June 14, 2002 My birthday
The Baths is a health spa about 16 km from Citrusdal in a pretty wooded gorge. It is a long weekend in South Africa; Monday is Youth Day-(SA has ... [Continue reading this entry] Orange River Bush Camp at Fiddler’s Creek
Wednesday, June 12th, 2002
The facilities are nice-big grassy campsite and there is a lapa (open air shelter) covered with green leaves of a plant with purple flowers within which to eat and wash dishes.
At camp we eat left-over Kudo steak sandwiches ... [Continue reading this entry]
Fiddler’s Creek Camp
Wednesday, June 12th, 2002
June 12, 2002 To the South African Border
In the morning before we leave camp, three guys walk up to our campfire as George is frying bacon; I walk up and introduce myself. Two ... [Continue reading this entry] Hobas & Fish River Canyon
Tuesday, June 11th, 2002
June 11, 2002
On the way from Serus the topography is incredible--perfectly formed mesas and buttes-almost Utah-like. We stop in the tiny wide spot in the road called Bethanie. Bob mails a card ... [Continue reading this entry] The Dunes & Sarus Guest Farm
Monday, June 10th, 2002
June 10, 2002
After a night camping near Sesriam, everyone else is up at 5:00 to go hiking in the Dunes. No coffee and no "breaky" (breakfast). These are the largest Dunes in the world ... [Continue reading this entry] Solitaire & Sesriem Camp
Sunday, June 9th, 2002
June 9, 2002 Sesriem literally means "six rawhide strings"
The truck ride south to Sesriem Camp was not as cold as we thought it would be. We stopped in Solitaire-a wide spot in ... [Continue reading this entry] Swakopmund
Saturday, June 8th, 2002
June 6-8, 2002
How are you today mommi? George and James do a pretty good job looking after me-making sure I'm happy so I don't unglue on this trip and make a problem for ... [Continue reading this entry] Otjiwarongo Cheetah Camp
Wednesday, June 5th, 2002
June 5, 2002
The next morning James drives us back to Outjo, the small predominantly German/Afrikaner town we had stayed in before and we buy apple strudel and real drip coffee in the bakery and ... [Continue reading this entry] Ombinda Country Lodge
Sunday, June 2nd, 2002
Sunday June 2, 2002 near Outjo
Yesterday the truck broke a spring so we stopped in the Afrikaner town of Outjo to find a mechanic and pick up some groceries. James drove us to ... [Continue reading this entry] Angolan Refugee Camp
Saturday, June 1st, 2002
June 2002
So African Intervention in Namibia
Namibia used to be part of South Africa and South African incursions into Angola and Namibia continued from 1975 until well into the 1980's and I tell you this ... [Continue reading this entry] Yainguaz Camp Near Gobabis
Saturday, June 1st, 2002
June 1, 2002 Yainguaz Camp near Gobabis, Namibia
The countries of Botswana and Namibia are very different geographically from Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The topography is flatter even than Botswana and much of Namibia ... [Continue reading this entry] Diamonds And Plastic
Friday, May 31st, 2002
On the way back to Maun Botswana in the Safari truck, Rod explains that the area around Maun is in the fastest growing area in the southern hemisphere because of the discovery of diamonds ... [Continue reading this entry] Okavango Delta By Makoro
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
The Makoro Trip through the Delta
By the time the 1300 km long Okavango, southern Africa's third largest river, enters Botswana from Angola, through the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, it begins to spread and sprawl as it is absorbed by the ... [Continue reading this entry]
AIDS & The Ocavango Delta
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
Wed May 29-30 , 2002
Can't stop in Maun to check email because nothing opens until 10am. Gary takes us into the Delta on his Safari wagon with two long seats back to back ... [Continue reading this entry] Maun & Sitatunga Camp
Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
Tues May 28,2002 To Sitatunga Camp near Maun Botswana
Up at 5:30 again. Had wieners, eggy bread (French Bread) with honey and canned spaghetti for breakfast. James is doing his usual antic-body stuff ... [Continue reading this entry] Buffalo Fence & Planet Baobab
Monday, May 27th, 2002
May 27, 2002
We see the 3000km of 1.5 meter high "Buffalo Fence" along side the road on the way to Okavango Delta in Botswana. It�'s actually a series of high-tensile steel wire barriers ... [Continue reading this entry] Chobe National Park
Saturday, May 25th, 2002
The border crossing from Zambia into Botswana is at the border post of Kazungula. The truck ride on the Kazungula Ferry across the Zambezi River is not much of a hassle. Rod ... [Continue reading this entry] Victoria Falls & Rafting The Zambezi In Zambia
Saturday, May 25th, 2002
Sun May 25, 2002
Up at 5:30 for the sunrise micro-light (motorcycle with wings) ride to view the falls and the geologic formation left by them over thousands of years. The half hour ... [Continue reading this entry] 
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