GREAT FOOD EXPERIENCES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Since starting my travels in Peru, I have dedicated myself to eating as many different foods and trying as many different tastes as I possibly could. South Africa was no different. Here, I set about experiencing as many new, strange…
NOT ALL WAS FUN AND GAMES, THERE WAS ALSO DANGER LURKING
Now that I have your attention I am going to tell a story that is true but in a way sounds a bit outrageous. This happened later on in my stay there and after I had been moved from the…
WORLD FAMOUS BLUE TRAIN, South Africa’s ORIENT EXPRESS
My dad had always been an aficionado of trains and when he realized that he was coming to South Africa for a visit he studied up on the country’s famous Blue Train. This was a train that left Pretoria in…
AN ALBERTA COWBOY COMES TO AFRICA – SPRING 1990
Back in South Africa, back at work and the time is passing quickly. I have been given a promotion and am now heading up a department that was established to oversee the engineering, specification, identification, storage and distribution of all…
JIMBO HAS A NEW FISHING PARTNER READY TO FISH THE OCEAN
I have convinced Deysi to come on another fishing trip with me. It was not easy because the one in Mauritius did not cut it for her. One lonely Dorado for $300+ did not compute as good value to her.…
OFF TO THE SEYCHELLES WHERE THE PIRATES ONCE LIVED
Half way into our vacation of fall 1989 and we were back on a plane and headed for the Seychelles. We had just finished one week in the Mauritius and were very relaxed and happy. When we embarked we had…
FISHING THE INDIAN OCEAN WITH MY NEW PARTNER RON
Ron has decided on this trip to join me in a fishing charter. I am so excited. Finally we are going to do something I like. We rent our boat, load our gear, load a fisherman and his helper. Now…
PART II, THE GREAT KRUGER PARK SAFARI (THE SURVIVAL PART)
The time had passed so quickly (not so much for Ron and her protege Ange) that before we knew it, the afternoon was waning and a late afternoon glow of sunlight now shone thru the bushes. It’s time to get…
FINALLY WE MADE IT TO KRUGER PARK AND JUST SURVIVED
The time had finally come and we were off to Kruger Park. We joined some families from work and rented a lodge inside of the park. Other than two fenced in compounds, that accommodated about 4 families, no one was…
DISCOVERING “BEEF JERKY” SOUTH AFRICA STYLE IN JOHANNESBURG 1998
Our first days or weeks in Johannesburg brought us many new adventures and experiences. Once again we were in a culture that we did not know. Many of the things that we thought we knew, did not apply, so much,…
