JMW MEETS THE H…Ds (editors note: and boy was he underwhelmed)
Let’s go back to September 2011. At this time, I was living in a town called O’Fallon in Illinois. It’s a smallish town about 16 miles east of the Illinois-Missouri border and the city of St. Louis. Veronica and I…
WITH MEMORIES OF SOUTH AFRICA LOCKED IN MY BLOG WE NOW DEPART (ADIOS)
I have spent a long time reaching into the depths of this old mind, in order to set in print some of my remaining memories of South Africa. I have truly enjoyed digging out memories, some of which have been…
WOW A NEW POST BY A GUEST AUTHOR PAIR, HAS CLIMBED TO THE TOP
An amazing thing has happened! For the past three weeks I have been asking readers to add their own article(s) to this blog. At the outset, Deysi added a test article that immediately became very popular. Since that time there…
LOST IMAGES OF AFRICA FROM 1989-90 HAVE RESURFACED
Yesterday, I was searching thru an old box in the garage, when I came across a packet of unsent post cards that dated back to the 1980’s. There were quite a few and in some cases multiple copies of the…
2018 – A DISNEYLAND ODYSSEY (NEW! NEW! GUEST POST!)
Ahhh, 2018. The year that Ange’s wildest dreams came true and Ron agreed to go to Disneyland with her. It’s like good ol’ Walt always said; “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”.…
ONE LAST POST OF OUR VISITORS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1989-1990
I am about ready to leave South Africa and venture on to our next stop in this journey. I cannot leave, however, without first posting some pictures of our visitors and some of the places that they found themselves in,…
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…
B&W IMAGES OF THE GIRLS IN AFRICA – BY UNCLE CLIF – PROFESSIONAL
During their visit in 1989-90, Uncle had the opportunity to pose the girls for some professional photos. At this time he worked, at least some of his time, as a professional photographer. You can easily tell the difference in his…
THE TOUR CONTINUES, THE GARDEN ROUTE, MOSSEL BAY, CANGO, DURBAN AND HOME (part II)
Ok we are on the road again, driving along the Garden Route heading towards Durban with a few stops planned. Our first stop was at the Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn. It was a spectacular setting and the first time we…
CAPE TOWN, THE GARDEN ROUTE, MOSSEL BAY, PORT ELIZABETH AND DURBAN (part 1)
In this post I am going to describe a major family trip that we took in 1990 to Cape Town, on to the Cape of Good Hope, along the coast of the Indian Ocean on the Garden Route, to the…
