Already the end of April?
April 29 – Last night in Port Elizabeth. Tomorrow morning, I will drive 4 hours north to Ganora Guest Farm, saying goodbye to Addo and the Port Elizabeth area. It has been an amazing visit in lots of different ways. The Kraal guesthouse was a little challenging on a few fronts. My arrival appeared to […]
Catching up with pictures
How time flies! I am so far behind with this update that I am just going to tells the story in pictures.In between outings, I am hanging out at H&W’s house, painting a few things on walls and enjoying the local restaurants. The neighborhood could easily be mistaken for Southern California if you don’t notice […]
Glider ride, off-roading and drive back to Pretoria
March 12-19 Glider Ride Having made good progress on the mural, there was time for a play day. A friend of Michelle’s knew a local glider pilot who operated out of a nearby airfield. The weather was perfect when we arrived, clear sky’s, hill’s heating up in the morning sun. The glider was a self-launch […]
Winterton and beyond
It has been an amazing week in and around Winterton. Arrived on the 5th of March. Michelle and I spent most of the 6th tossing mural ideas back and forth and out the window.
Batty
The house is very nice, fairly new and made of concrete walls with old fashioned tin plate ceilings. Like any farm house, there are animals who share the space, both inside and outside. I got up to pee around 3 am, not too unusual for me but not welcomed. I didn’t turn on the light […]
Busy first week in South Africa
I arrived at the Johannesburg airport after roughly 24 hours of travel feeling pretty good and very excited to see Heather and Will. Having somewhere to stay and someone picking me up at the airport took most of the stress out of prepping to leave home. Heather drove us to their house in Pretoria through […]
Wombat Rescue
What sounded pretty straight forward in the Workaway listing turned out to be anything but. Not in a bad way, just in a very interesting, unusual and intriguing way. Where to be begin? Friends, Mark and Jody, drove me all the way to the farm/rescue center. It was a large house sitting on 110 acres […]
The bravery of caring
Lyn Chalmers started Locky’s Legacy wildlife shelter 16 years ago. It is named after a little Brushtail possum who passed away overnight unexpectedly in his sleep. Locky’s Legacy is located approximately 10km north of Pakenham, Australia and covers approximately 5.9 hectares of hilly, native bushland with a dam and a creek running through the end of […]
Echuca Reflections
Kookaburras and cockatoos are setting the background track this evening. A storm rolled in after I got back to the Discovery Holiday park. I decided to not go back to town for dinner as planned. I am feeling sort of lost between the layers. Steamboat in Echuca I could fly to somewhere outside of Australia […]
Redirect from the Universe
Passport missing?!?! All packed up and ready to leave the Ashbolt Farm, I went to do the regular visual check of passport and vital documents.Standard operating procedure, I do it every time I leave a place. This time it is not standard; I can’t find the passport or the passport holder with the Nexus Card […]