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Geo: -29.61, 28.2336Lesotho is a unique country in Africa. It has never been colonized although was a protectorate of Britain. Their famous leader King Moshoeshoe united many previously fighting Basotho tribes to maintain ownership of the Kingdom in the Sky. They fought Zulu warriors and the Dutch and British. The result of this remarkable history, and obviously more complex than described here, is what appears to be happy people who are very poor. The country has a very different feel from South Africa even though it is completely surrounded by its only neighbouring country, South Africa.We left the Drakensbergs, travelling through the Royal Natal and Golden Gate National Parks observing stunning mountainous scenery and stopping for a quick breakfast in the sweet and very busy little town of Clarens. The town was hosting a well-known off ... read more

Geo: -32.1179, 28.9975It's hard to describe South Africa. It feels like a country that has multiple personalities; each one aware the other exists yet very separate from one another. As we drove from Cape Town through the Garden Route, into Addo and then up to the Wild Coast we encountered first California-like seaside resorts where the white people play and are separated from the poverty-stricken townships where the black people live in order to work. Past Addo, we experienced the chaotic nature of towns where we were the only white people in sight. People were walking, chatting, buying, selling - there was activity everywhere. Then we drove past large, orderly farms with big equipment and onto the wild coast where families worked, bent over using hand tools while tending to their small plot of subsistence land. ... read more

Geo: -33.5928, 22.2025All I want to do is STOP! What I mean to say is, on the day-to-day level I just want to stay in one nice place for no less than three nights – one bed, no packing up, a day of taking stock, getting laundry done, repacking and doing whatever else I feel like doing. On the larger level, it means going home – not right away but darned soon. As of April 12, we are 4 weeks away from returning home; every day I make myself focus on enjoying whatever I am doing yet constantly in the background, my mind is doing the countdown…27 days, 26 days, etc. Jim says he could continue travelling endlessly. This brings me to a piece of information passed onto us during our meerkat adventure (I'll tell you ... read more