Once in Cape Town, Yours Truly Cafe It’s 11.53 and I’m sat here at this huge table kind of in the middle of Yours Truly, all by myself. This cafe is the de facto hostel bar and restaurant for Once in Cape Town. I had a pretty meh biltong avocado […]
This bar uses the same playlist every night. It’s all top 40, but it helps get the party going. If I was staying here longer than a few days I would surely go insane. The staff in the bar seem to cope by getting drunker and drunker as the night […]
I’m getting a little hungry as I sit here typing this up on a couch in Fatima’s Backpackers. “Nice black chicks man….Ahhh It’s like heaven. I don’t want to go to heaven tonight” says the guy to my right. He has told us to go to Copa Cabana, a strip […]
We drive for awhile with Gibson, reaching the border at 11.30. Suddenly, I find myself dealing with a very strict exit guard. He doesn’t believe I’m the person on the passport–he thinks that I look too old. This is a typical thing with African border guards. They really try to […]
It’s almost ironic that in a place pronounced ‘tofu’ one still has to be vigilant in finding vegan food. Luckily, the name isn’t too far off the mark, and it’s easy enough to find tasty vegan food in Tofo. Restaurants For such a small place, there is a impressive assortment […]
14.05 — Tofo Scuba. I’m wearing these shitty swim trunks I bought in the market as I sit here typing away on my laptop. I’ve stolen a fry or two from Annabel as her salad and chips have arrived. I just did two separate dives this morning with Corina, Annabel, […]
The ‘free African massage’ is in session as we bounce around down the road from Maasai Mara to Tanzania. We’re cutting through the park and the air is nice and cool at this hour as it streams through the open top of our safari van. Caffeine levels low. The tolerance […]
An AK-47 is on the flag of Mozambique, and also makes up the seal of this country. This is all I knew before I arrived. As the surf crashes up on the beach beside me, I’m drinking a cold 2M Mac Mahon–De Cervejas De Moçambique. For a country with a gun […]
I’m chewing away on this cold pizza while I sit in the cozy South African living room of my hostel. It was pretty decent pizza cold, my new friend Peta offered me some when I asked if she had dinner yet. Yum. First hostel I have been in where this […]
Bouncing around in the back of a Land Cruiser with David behind the ‘ol wheel. We just saw some Lions like way up close—about 3 meters. Today has been epic. We’ve just been in a hot air balloon over Maasai Mara. Here’s what happened. We wake up at 3:45 AM […]