(Day Two) In Cape Town, we woke up and it was rainy. Then, we drove in the rain to a winery. There was lots of cheese, CD ate the goat cheese and I ate cow cheese. Ashley just likes wine. I got board so I went outside and chased peacocks in the rain. Then we got in the car, and Paw Paw fell asleep again. We drove around a little town and got lun...

After a full day of flying, we finally made it to Africa. We arrived to the hotel at 11:30pm last night, and Doug, Lindsay and Ashley headed to the bar. What started out as one glass of wine, turned into a party with four wild Scottish men on their way to Angola. When our tab disappeared and ended up on their corporate expense account (oil execu...

Today we awoke at the Table Bay Hotel, which is in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, and were greeted with a beautiful view of Table Mountain from our hotel room window. We had a great buffet breakfast- yummy things like passionfruit and guava juice! Prior to our arrival Cape Town had several days of rain, so since the weather was clear went...

On arrival in Johannesburg, due to our late departure from DC we were just able to make our connecting flight, since after clearing immigration and customs we had to walk from the international to the domestic terminal.  If we'd checked our bags, I'm not sure if we would have made it.  The flight to Cape Town was uneventful, and arrived pretty m...

Cape Town, is a rapidly rising hotspot on the African continent and according to some surveys, is the hottest travel destination in the world right now. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa and specifically the Cape have done a marvelous job of marketing the wonders of their region to perspective visitors. It is easy to see why in the three ...