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Trip to South Africa, Part 7 – Leaving the Bush

I slept in late on Wednesday morning. Partly from being so tired from the night before and partly because I was avoiding Rob and Andrew. After I packed up my stuff last night, I ran into an ex-Zimbabwean named Wayne who had been living in the UK for the last ten years. We had a [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 6 – Storming

We woke up the next day still pretty high from the night before, and decided to calm down with tea and cricket. The highlights from the West Indies South Africa game was on and I used it as a teaching tool to try and explain the game to my American travel mates. Strangely enough they [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 5 – The Pilanesberg

Resurrected, appropriately, on Sunday morning we headed off to discover the great new land that surrounded us. Being in the middle of a wild life preserve larger than Spain makes one think one obvious first thought: how do we get online? It turns out that there are a couple of viciously flakey hot spots around [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 4 – Cape Town, the final day

Saturday morning was a little rough. I woke up at 7, having only gone to bed three hours earlier, and packed, showered and got the car ready. I then went to wake the two who had as much to drink as their non-driving selves wanted the previous evening. Andrew was especially hung-over, and probably still [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 3 – Wine and Poker

We woke up a little later than planed the following day and I slowly mobilized the troops to hit the wine route. Jacqui, who gets up at a time more fitting for a college student than a senior partner in a law firm, gave us some advice on the trip before we hit the road, [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 2 – Shark Diving

Wednesday started a little later and relaxed, with coffee and a drive into Cape Town on a mission to find “Swimming Costumes” (Bathing Suits) – the one thing we had both failed to bring, and considering the beautiful weather and the idea that we should go cage diving with Great Whites the following day, seemed [...]

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Trip to South Africa, Part 1 – The Saga Begins

Our first stop on our travels was meeting a Bible college professor of Archeology who was flying to Tennessee to meet his sweetheart. I somehow managed to convince him that we were good, god-fearing Christians who also believe that Muslims should be buried alive, and he offered to take us as his guests to the [...]

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