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...
by Traveller | Nov 22, 2012 | Africa, Round The World, South Africa
This year, I shared Thanksgiving lunch with 194 of my newest friends over Italy. Let’s just say KLM didn’t do Turkey, but they did do an unbelievable job with chicken. Before taking off, I switched to a window seat, which afforded me spectacular views of...
by Traveller | Nov 22, 2012 | Denmark, Europe, Round The World
As I’m typing this, I’m sitting in the KLM Club at the Amsterdam Schipol Airport watching men standing in line for a service desk to zealously guard their frequent flier miles. My journey is about 38,000 miles. Jeeze. That’s a long way. Anyway,...
by Traveller | Nov 21, 2012 | Denmark, Europe, Round The World
I dreamt last night about trying to arrange dinner with all of the living former Presidents. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush were on board. But Jimmy Carter sang a song about there being no way he’d do it (the song had a mocking tone to it,...