"How are you feeling after your trip?" Me: "Disconnected." Some call it culture shock, but that's just a fancy buzzword for feeling disconnected, aka: feeling like an alien that's just walked off the ship. Home is now...
It feels like Europe, or even Vancouver to be precise, but Cape Town decidedly does not feel African. As a doppelgänger for Vancouver, it has the mountains and ocean, oh, and the uber healthy crowd...
This post will be a series of pictures and stories. So much has happened, and I have met so many people that I cannot possibly overwhelm you. Cape Town adventures to come! It took a few...
I didn't know the country of Lesotho existed before I began researching for my trip to Africa. And you can't blame me. It's a tiny landlocked country within South Africa; the country asked for British...
After grabbing my driver’s licence in Durban, I say goodbye to the city where I first began using Uber. Oh, and the incredible surfing and bunny chow. On the road with my car, gulp. Driving on...
In a canyon between two rock faces, I climbed up the boulders like Spiderman. ‘Don’t look down.’ The trail, appropriately named, The Crack, cuts through a crevice; to reach the plateau, you have to scramble...
I wish I had my heart rate monitor this morning when I heard a snake hissing in the grass. Hmm, let's see, was it the highly poisonous rinkhal whose neck spreads like a cobra and...
First time surfing in Mexico I hated it. Swore I would never do it again, ever. Caught in washing-machine waves, smashed in head with surfboard and eating the sandy ocean floor. Party on. But, looking...
It's just outside South Africa's third largest city, but visiting the Valley of 1000 Hills near Durban feels unbelievably removed from the modern world. Villages delineated by rivers and mountains, as they were many years...
"You have the strongest legs I've ever seen on a woman," says Malan, the rider I mentioned who is recovering from lung cancer. Indeed, hills are my forte. One look at my thighs and it's...