Day Nine: Our Anniversary in Knysna Today we began our drive on the Garden Route. I had read about how scenic this drive was, but mistakenly thought it was famous for all the flowers along the route. Actually it´s called the Garden Route because it´s so green. Along with beaches, there are coastal lagoons, lakes,…
Day Eight: Meerkat Adventures and Swartberg Pass As the alarm went off this morning at 4 AM I thought to myself, I hope these meerkats are worth waking up at this ungodly hour…. We drove to the meeting point in the dark and followed a small train of cars with their lights through a plot…
Day Seven: Ostriches and One Amazing Rainbow Luckily I was feeling better the next morning for our four-hour drive from Mosaic to the Little Karoo where we were going to experience meerkats in their natural environment. The Little Karoo is known for being very hot and very dry. We drove inland from Hermanus…
Day Four: The Cape Winelands Sadly, the next day we had to leave Cape Town. I could have stayed another week and still wanted to stay longer. There is so much to do there and the landscape is so beautiful. There was also a lot of shopping to do that we never got around to.…
Day Three: Our Tour of the Cape Peninsula Cape Town doesn´t occupy the southern most part of Africa. If you look on a map closely, there is a long, skinny peninsula leading from the city to the Cape of Good Hope. The peninsula has very scenic coastline and several cute little seaside towns like Camp´s…
When I was re-diagnosed in June with metastasis in my brain, I quickly wrote up my travel bucket list. Number one on the list was an African safari, so when I found out in October that my treatment worked and that I was healthy, Jon asked me where I wanted to go most in the…
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