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December 20th, 2012 | Africa

Tomorrow’s the day…!!

I have spent the last few evenings sorting through the many files on my laptop in order to save stuff I wanted, and delete the stuff I no longer felt I needed…

After so many years on the road, I have accumulated reams of notes about things I either wrote about or places I had […]

December 5th, 2012 | Africa

More from Doug…

Let it not be said that Doug’s only pastime when not at work, is dreaming about cutting down all the trees in his neighbourhood… And scaring the bejesus out of that shady cat of his…

This morning I opened my mail to find the following waiting for me… Simply entitled, “IT’S ALIVE…!!!”, his email read […]

December 2nd, 2012 | Africa

A Busy Boy and Message from Pennsylvania…!!

Getting settled into Johannesburg has not been all that easy…!! I stayed in four different homes in the first two weeks after arriving here… I am finally in a place that I can hopefully call “home” for the next few months, although the house that I am in, is on the market, and if a […]

November 22nd, 2012 | Africa

1000 days ago today…

…I left Johannesburg in South Africa, to ride my bike around the world…

After 997 days of traveling, visiting 102 countries on 6 continents; reaching the most northern and southern tip of 5 of those continents; and covering over 200 000 km by bike, boat and air, I have arrived back in my old haunts…

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September 29th, 2012 | Africa

Last days in Africa…(for the time being anyway…!!)

On the way back to Johannesburg for the last few days we would spend in South Africa before we jetted back to the Caribbean, we stopped to visit with Charlotte’s sisters on their farm, Oakland’s…

Front view of the main house at Oakland’s Country Manor… Click on the link above to see more…

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September 27th, 2012 | Africa

My Spanish Connection…

Just before we left my parents home in Uvongo, my mother presented Patricia with a laminated copy of our family’s Coat of Arms, which just added another little twist to my already complicated heritage…!!

“This is to prove to you that you have married into nobility…!!” my father said with a wide grin…

Patricia was […]