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Whine, whine, oops, I mean wine, wine…

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Hello all! Internet has been few and far between as we head north and probably will be fewer and even farther between. I even bought a notebook to do a handwritten journal since I’m not sure when we’ll be able to get on!

Anyway, Stellenbosch was awesome! I mean, really, where can you go wrong with wine and decent food? It’s a small town like an hour by train outside of Cape Town and there’s like 120 some-odd wineries. And then there’s all the neighboring towns that have a gazillion more.

So we went on this hop-on hop-off bus winery deal. First off, it’s kind of weird because they charge for tasting. Hello, isn’t the point of the try and buy? Anyway, we learned that some of the wines we get in the states are done by several wineries combining their product together until they find a palatable combination and then marketing it under a different name. So, we were looking for a particular winery but the winery didn’t actually exist. Kind of lame but just to get their product overseas a lot of the wineries are too small.

Anyway, we tried several different kinds of wine, and had quite a few glasses of wine. And it was quite ironic that we stayed at a hostel called the Stumble Inn. But we really did stumble home one night!

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Fairies and Hogs

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Our next stop was Hogsback. Fellow travellers Ross & Michelle who we met in the N Drakensburgs recommended this lovely place. And we literally would have had no intention of going there.

Unfortunately, to go to Hogsback coming from the East you had to spend the night in East London. Their shuttle ran once a day and it was in the morning and we didn’t get there until the afternoon (there’s only 1 run from Umtata to E London/day on the bus). Not that E London was that bad – but we chose the loudest place – E London Backpackers – and they had a school group there. Need I say more? No sleep for John and Cindy.

The next day we got the shuttle to Hogsback. To Away with the Fairies. Unbelievably gorgeous view of the Hogs 1-3 (they kind of looked like those pigs that have been stuffed with the apple in the mouth except for they have those little ridges on their backs – hence the name hogsback instead of pigsback). And for 2 nights we had this little bungalow all to ourselves with our own kitchenette and bathroom (another couple came on the 3rd night)! Score! It was called, yes, I kid you not, The Hobbit. Someone was an amazing artist because they had painted darn near all the interior rooms with fairy themes – though fortunately not overkill – supposedly it may have been the inspiration for the Tolkien series…no idea.

The first full day we were there we decided to conquer Hog 1. Unfortunately, we, like in Costa Rica, were following a beloved cartoon map. We were okay for the first several miles. We followed the yellow footprints (they were marking the path). And then the path came to a forest road. And there was this giant yellow footprint that marked going up. So we bushwhacked this part. To the next forestry road. We literally ended up on our hands and knees crawling through the brush. Which, of course, we found out was unnecessary. But more to that later. We headed down this road and finding no more of our helpful yellow footprints we finally ran into this gentleman that was able to show us point us the right way. Unfortunately, thinking we were going to have to crawl through the brush again and it had taken us quite a bit longer than we thought, we decided not to summit the hog. So we took lunch at the bottom of the hog and headed back. On the way back was this lovely little well-marked trail that had a huge yellow fotprint that led us to trail back to our hostel. I’m not sure if the yellow footprint guy was smoking some good stuff when he decided to mark our bushwhacking trail or if the rock just happened to be handy and he had extra yellow paint. Alas, had we known we could have gone to the top, but better safe than sorry – after all, we are in Africa, not Seattle.

The next day we had another day of hiking without mishap. And we got back in time for John to watch a soccer match between Man U and someone else. while I chatted with some travellers in the common area. We had already watched another match and I wasn’t inclined to sit there and watch 2. I’m just not a double-header kind of girl.

So that ends our hiking in S Africa (I think!)…Hogsback was definitely more tree-ey than the N Drakensburgs – and much more lovely as far as I’m concerned. And the hostel people were much nicer – and that can make most of the difference in the world…off to Stellenbosch (after a long night on a bus!)…the S African capital of wines…yummy…

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Coffee Bay, yet no coffee…

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

So we travelled for most of the morning and into the afternoon to get to Umtata, which is where we were to pick up the shuttle to Coffee Bay. We travelled on Greyhound and it totally kicks the American ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Big, Bad Durban

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I think it's funny that everyone we ran into before Durban warned us about how Durban was really awful and all that. But then we end up staying at this cute little place called the Hippo Hide. I mean, I ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Pretoria, doing, well, nothing…

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

So we land in Johannesburg, South Africa to tons of fanfare! Balloons! Whistles! Okay, actually, the most lackadaisacal (sp.) customs I've ever been through. Stamp stamp. That's it. We were then met by a lovely shuttle ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Okay,back up…DC…

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Okay, so I got ahead of myself - isn't that shocking? And I apologize in advance for bad grammar - this keyboard sucks... So, I can't really remember where I left off - oh well, we made it to DC...drove to ... [Continue reading this entry]

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South Africa, finally!

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Just a quick note - we're finally out of the US! And it's finally warm! Not scalding hot, but like "San Diego warm" (hi Jean!) It was so crazy, we get to Washington Dulles and SA Airways says, oh ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Taking Seattle with me…

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

So I finally leave Seattle...it was cold there...now I'm in DC and have been to S Carolina and Florida and it's been cold. Oh well! Anyway, began the trip from Seattle at 3:30 am on April 1st - thanks mom ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Wrappin’ up

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Ahhh - 1 more week until I leave to go to a foreign place! Okay, not like a foreign, foreign place, but someplace I've never been. S Carolina! I'm actually looking forward to leaving Seattle and getting ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Welcome to the Internet Mom!

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

So John leaves tomorrow for Camden, South Carolina to see his mom. I'll be following in a couple of weeks to spend a few days there, then we bop down by Amtrak to see my brother in Jacksonville, and then ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Whine, whine, oops, I mean wine, wine…

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Big, Bad Durban

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South Africa, finally!

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