by Traveller | Jan 4, 2013 | Round The World
In what I think will be the final act of this RTW adventure, I headed to Raleigh a couple of days ago to pick up a package I sent myself from Cape Town. The package went air mail. It turns out it sat in Cape Town for about two weeks before grabbing a spot in the...
by Traveller | Nov 28, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
If you haven’t been to Cape Town, get here. It’s a wonderful city even though “Call Me Maybe” is playing in the restaurant where I’m sitting now. Oh, wait. New song? “Truly, Madly, Deeply” by Savage Garden. Really? Well, at...
by Traveller | Nov 27, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
This morning, I felt a bit like a guy that I saw at Kirstenbosch Gardens yesterday. He didn’t particularly want to be there so he was asking his friends, “What are we supposed to do here?” After a lengthy internal dialogue, I chose not to remain in...
by Traveller | Nov 25, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
What a surprise! This morning, Kurt the fax-master had something nice in store for me: A one-on-one tour of the wine country around Cape Town. Sunday is a slow day here. The driver was Phillip, from the Ukraine. He collected me at 08:30. It was just the two of us so...
by Traveller | Nov 24, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
On checking into my hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, I had a message waiting. That’s always so exciting. It’s usually just a note letting me know that the materials for an upcoming sales training program have arrived. This time it was a bit different. The...