Hey Dad,
OK you asked for it. Here’s the whole route I took in South Africa. I started in Cape Town flying in 24 hours from Atlanta with a layover in Johannesberg. Not really having a plan when I landed I decided to rent a car and drive from Cape Town to Jo’Burg which [...]
Well, I have driven North East from Cape Town through the “Garden Route” through a town called Port Elizabeth where I stayed for a night, then to Coffee Bay in the “Wild Coast” in the Transkei heartland where the Xhosi are from (the ones who click when speaking!). It’s the poorest area of SA but [...]
I went surfing yesterday in Coffee Bay a famous surf spot in South Africa. And from now on I am officially a surfer and no longer a hurley poser like I was in college! But today I am incredibly sore everywhere but most oddly in my fingers. Paddling I guess. But yeah, I am hooked [...]
So Friday I began to drive the 10 hours to Atlanta from Ft. Lauderdale to stay with Rose and catch my flight to South Africa. After driving 30 mins in the wrong direction as in South to Cuba instead of North to Georgia, I decided that was a sign and headed back to Ft. Lauderdale [...]
Today I checked out of the retirement community (I’m not quite ready to retire) and moved back into Mary’s Crew House. Oh, also have a new job but don’t start until May 7 where the boat will fly me to Nassau where we’ll do a delivery to NYC. So until then, instead of hanging out [...]
I quit my absolutely horrendous job on Friday and decided that I owe myself a vacation so I checked into a retirement community accidentally. I looked up health spas online and thought I had found this really cool spa where you could do yoga all day long and sit on the beach and get three [...]