Imagine Growing Up on this Street

I had the opportunity to do a tour of Soweto and I spent some time on the famous street of Vilakazi.  It is the only street in the world than can boast the homes of two Nobel Peace Prize winners.  

Vilakazi Street is the most famous street in Soweto, and is the only [...]

I can't remember the last time I actually cried while I read a book.  Sure, I have been misty eyed here or there but not to the point of actual tears and this was a nonfiction book. John Carlin has delivered one of the the best sports books that I have ever read.  Carlin has [...]

                  Pictured: I got this great shot after we followed a lion for twenty minutes.
The twelve day adventure tour ended in Johannesburg, South Africa.  We left Dan at his upscale hotel with his wife joining him later that night to start their own adventure trekking guerrillas in Rwanda.  Hendrik was getting ready to see his [...]

Our adventure continued after the daring days of shark diving and bungy jumping.  The rest of the trip was a little more subdued and as my mother would say "not as reckless."  One of the stops we made was in the small town of Hogsback, South Africa. 
At first I didn't understand why it was [...]

                       Pictured: Hendrik, Sam and Dan at Addo National Elephant Park.
The adventure continues with your three protagonists slowly making their way through the Garden Route of the southernmost road of South Africa. We entered the Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park in the early afternoon.  We did a hike through the park before the sun down and [...]

The adventure continued as the three of us took the coastal route towards the East Coast of South Africa.  We stopped in a number of small communities giving me a better sense of the country outside of the big cities that I had been to before the trip had started.
Pictured: Me trying to do my [...]

                           Pictured: Sam and Dan Haight at the southernmost city in Africa.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post after a fun weekend in Cape Town, I embarked on a guys trip with my friend, Dan Haight and our trusty guide, Hendrik Van Vuuren.  The first stop was to go to the most southern point of the [...]

             Pictured:The view of Cape Town from Table Mountain.
I spent a weekend in Cape Town, South Africa before heading out on a
12-day adventure that would satisfy any adrenaline junkie.  I had
received an e-mail from my friend Dan Haight before the end of the
year. I met Dan and his wife last year in Antarctica and through [...]

"Today when I look at Robben Island, I see it as a celebration of the struggle and a symbol of the finest qualities of the human spirit, rather than as a monument to the brutal tyranny and oppression of apartheid. It is true that Robben Island was once a place of darkness, but out of [...]

                           Pictured: Morgan Tsvangirai being sworn in by his rival, Robert Mugabe this past week in Zimbabwe.
"You should listen to all people.  Everyone has a story.  Everyone can teach you something."
The above is a paraphrase of a statement my grandfather told me when I was young.  It is typical grandfatherly advice.  I am sure someone [...]