i usually do a live music roundup at the end of every year. usually it's about 90-95% indigo girls shows. 2008 was very different for me. and i have to say, 2008 was awesome in terms of concerts i attended ( Read more... )

"if i know a song of africa, of the giraffe and the african new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does africa know a song of me?" ~ karen blixen, out of africa

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i am back in the us (chicago tonight, california tomorrow). i started the long and arduous process of uploading my photos. i've barely made a dent! so far i have uploaded all of my cape town photos (including the cape peninsula and the cape flats) and about 1/2 of my kruger national park photos. i am too tired to upload anything else tonight, ( Read more... )

i made it safe and sound to jo'burg. this time, it was a coach bus from maputo to south africa, no chicken bus. i kind of missed the chicken bus. ok, maybe not so much. anyway, aside from getting stranded at the jo'burg bus station (which is one of the scariest places on earth), no incidents to report. phew. oh, and the border crossing from ( Read more... )

can i just say that i hate that we are on the same continent??seriously, sometimes i feel like he follows me around. we happened to be in bangkok at the same time a few years ago ( Read more... )

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i am off to mozambique for a week in paradise in the morning.

i don't know what the internet situation is going to be like in maputo and tofo.

but, while y'all are chained to your desk jobs, you can think of me sipping a 50 cent pina colada on a perfect white sand-ed beach with clear aqua water on ithe indian ocean.

don't hate me. ;) really, don ( Read more... )