Holy canoli, today is the last day! And it’s a big day! We’re still in Nambiti when we wake up. Becca decides to skip the morning game drive, which wasn’t such a bad idea except that she missed a pretty rad elephant fight! Otherwise, it was a pretty quiet morning. Post drive, Brett napped a […]

Another Safari day.  Not much to report, except that we made substantial progress on the giant bottle of sherry in our room, and Brett won the second game of Scrabble (FINALLY Becca says.   Her hair is still gross.) Here are some of the animals we have seen so far: 4 lion cubs. (And six […]

Safari Day 2! 4:30 AM wake-up call.  Safari waits for no man.   It’s dark at that time, but by quarter to 5 it’s already kinda dusky.  Well, dawny, I guess I should say.   We got to the lodge for coffee and a quick snack before heading out in our truck.  today we saw […]

This morning we had to leave the mountains and head to Nambiti Game reserve.  We’d discovered the night before that there was Sa rock art on the property, but we were so exhausted that we couldnt bring ourselves to wake up early again for more hiking.  We regretted it, but we also slept in, so […]

Big amazing day!  Waterfall city!  Oh, that sounds like a level from a Mario Brothers game.  I wonder… But who cares, right?  We started by walking down towards Sterkspruit Falls, and along the way Becca saw our first wild baboon that *wasn’t* rummaging through garbage.  There were also a bunch of horses, which are techically […]

Morning in the Drakensbergs!  Yahoo!  Today we slept in (kind of), had breakfast on our awesome patio, and hit the trail! Our cabin was one of two on the property, along with the main house, more or less in the middle of 1 square kilometer of land in the..  gully, I guess, between two arms […]

Travel day!  We woke up early at our little b&b, and our hostess had English breakfast served to us in our room, which had an amazing view!  Don’t believe me?  Check it out. There was a curtain dividing our sleeping area from the breakfast area, and when we pulled it back, the whole spread was […]

What should have been a relaxing morning was actually a little panicky because we were worried about running out of gas while going from one end of the park to the other.  Poor gas tank management led us to set alarms for like 7 so we could quickly dine, drive out of the park to […]

Waking up early to blue skies and crashing waves, we cleaned up our room at the Pink Lodge and discussed our plans for the day.  Our itinerary called for snorkeling with seals, but among the many positive reviews, the one negative review (which included a femoral-artery biting seal!) really stuck with us.  But, after working […]

Today was our first of two days in Wilderness, a small town right at the start of South Africa’s garden route, with miles of beautiful beaches and…  well, not much else!  But that’s what we were here for.  We woke up, went upstairs, ad had breakfast, scanning waves for a glimpse of a dolphin or […]