Thanks to all of you who somehow have remembered that today is my birthday and sent me notes, cards and e-mails!!! And thanks so much to those of you who have put a few dollars in my gas can through my PayPal or Amazon Accounts. The support and help is appreciated and I will put […]
The Lesotho plate features an icon of the traditional straw woven hats the traditional Sotho people wear while working the fields or tending livestock. I’ve come to endear Lesotho. Maybe it’s because of the extremely friendly people, the smiles on the faces of children or the spectacular mountain scenery and primitive villages. It’s unfortunate I […]
By the time I stopped I had counted five or six waterfalls. Given the amount of rain I’d been through for the last two weeks, it was no wonder. But riding through this majestic valley of gently rolling fertile hills punctuated by harsh and ominous croppings of rock, the waterfalls tumbled down from cliffs more […]
South Africa’s Wild Coast – between the ripping currents of the Indian Ocean and the mountains to the north is the “Transkei” a magical, mysterious and scenic part of South Africa and birthplace of South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. My time in Coffee Bay on South Africa’s “Wild Coast” was well spent. The “chill” […]
Tucked in cozy nook in the Amathole Mountains, Hogsback and the surrounding old growth forest, waterfalls and the canopy and odd shaped twists, turns and hanging strands of foliage and tree branches apparently was the inspiration for South African-born J.R. Tolkien and his wildly popular series of Fantasy books including The Hobbit and the Lord […]
Happy Birthday Audrey Karl-Shaff! Mom and my brother Jon decanting a bottle of wine in South Dakota in the shadow of Mount Rushmore!
The next morning I decided it was time to shove off from Addo and bid my hosts John & Cheryl goodbye while I left them a large map of South America outlined with the route I took. This will adorn a wall in their restaurant and become a new place for travelers to post notices, […]
Addo Elephant Park No amount of negotiating would convinced the South African National Park system to let me ride my motorcycle through the Addo Elephant Park. Formed in the 1930’s with only 11 the elephants that once roamed freely through the Eastern Cape, Addo National Park currently is home to more than 400 elephants and […]
The further away I ride from Cape Town the more I feel I’m moving into Africa. But this is South Africa, and as such doesn’t really feel like Africa at all. In fact the woman at the gift shop where I purchased a few African gifts for my nieces and nephews explained to me that […]
Other than safaris in Kroger National Park in the eastern part of the country, perhaps the place most frequented by tourists to South Africa is its famed Garden Route. Stretching a few hundred kilometers along the coastline from Mossel Bay in the west to Tsisikamma National Park in the east, the Garden Route is a […]
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