Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

In honor of a very special birthday (that would be my own) today we woke up to a wonderful breakfast of milk tart pie made special for us by our CS hosts (the same ones with which we started our South African adventure). It is a South African Milk Tart and it made for a [...]

Ostrich Revenge…

Ostrich Revenge…

Words can’t really express what it was like to ride an ostrich… although some of us are better than others… get kissed by an ostrich (evidence of danny’s fidelity, haha).. get a neck massage by an ostrich…. And so you see we had our revenge, of sorts, on the ostrich which attacked me in Swaziland.  [...]

Conserving Resources

Conserving Resources

In December the world’s nations got together in Copenhagen to discuss climate change and overwhelmingly the summit seems to be seen as a failure on the part of the developed nations to make significant strides forward in combating climate change. Unfortunately it’s not the wealthy nations of the world that fare the worst in dealing [...]

The Garden Route

The Garden Route

The Garden Route is a seemingly mythical stretch of coastline in South Africa stretching about 400 miles from Cape Town east along the Indian Ocean. This stretch is known as a surfer’s paradise offering bay after bay of relatively warm waters abutting sleepy seaside towns where ones biggest worry is when to sleep. But since [...]