Executive Summary - Visited Hahndorf South Australia, or the Amana Colonies, Iowa, equivalent in South Africa - Can add 'springbok' to my list of strange and exotic foods eaten - Further to that, there are many different types of Biltong, not all good - South African sparkling wine could use some improvement - Finally the jet lag subsides After breakfast at the guest house and a stroll around the gardens we headed off back to Jo'burg. We stopped by a butche...

Executive Summary: - Books finished: Kaffir Boy - Animals seen: Ostrich, Rottweiler - Visited grandparents gravesite - Had close encounter with a famous South African musician, just not that famous that anyone actually knew who he was - Started to work out that Afrikaans is actually spoken commonly Trip to Welkom - Day 2 Dad said Welkom is like Nebraska. He's not wrong (well, Nebraska with biltong shops and the aforementioned razor wire). We drove 2 hours...

Thursday we arrived in Johannesburg and were met by Dad's childhood friend, Ian, and his wife Jackie. Quick digression for a key story about the next few days - Dad was born in 1949 in Eshowe, Natal province to Luther & Lillian Reinertsen, Lutheran missionaries that lived in South Africa from 1946. By the time Dad was about 7 his family had moved to a town called Welkom in the gold fields of the Orange Free State. They lived here until Luther & Lillian...