Last Day in Africa - February 25, 2014 The last day for anything always makes me a bit melancholy--last day of school, last day at work, last day with long distance family or friends, and like today, last day of a wonderful adventure. It has been great, really great. It has been challenging, mind-boggling, enlightening, terrific fun, and a pure, pure pleasure. We have learned so much, we have met so many wonderful people from many parts of the world, and we h...

Cape Town - February 24, 2014 We returned our rental car early this morning. We did our daily fast walk for exercise and came back to the apartment to clean out the fridge, begin to pack and plan how to spend the rest of our last day here. Something told us to look at our tickets once more. Our flight time is confusing since we leave only 25 minutes into the new day on Feb. 26, at 12:25 am. Holy cow!! We realized that our flight is just after midnight foll...

The Garden Route, South Africa - February 23, 2014 Destination: Stellenbosch, the place to be for South African stellar wines. We found our way to the N1, the northwesterly route from Cape Town to wine country. We went south on route R44 into rolling hills lined with contrasting colors and shades of green and brown as rows of vines went crosswise across the land. There were big round hills with deep green fields crossed with mild yellow-colored rows circumve...

Cape of Good Hope - February 22, 2014 Today is one of those days when I feel that somehow we have been tapped with a rose, blessed, selected among many. Yes, many, many others go and see far more of the world than we have or will ever, but Stan and I feel so very lucky to be able to do and see as we do. Today was one of the best. Actually the day was very simple; we hopped in our rental car and headed to Cape Point. Stan had to become accustomed to driving o...

Cape Town - February 21, 2014 The Victoria and Albert Waterfront is just a few blocks from our door step. It is a huge, beautiful and rather new shopping, dining, drinking, hotel and entertainment complex set just to the north of the Cape Town Stadium and just west of the busy international shipping and commercial fishing basin on Table Bay. We arrived there about 10:30 am hoping to catch the boat to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 27...