It had been my assumption that Cape Town would be similar to San Francisco. This was based on nothing beyond the inarguable fact of it being a city built beside the ocean. But as I piloted our rented Volkswagen away from the airport (internally singing to myself: “left side, left side, we drive on the…
Never in my life have I been so aware of the sun’s comings and goings. We rose at the ungodly hour of 3:45am in order to make the drive from Cape Town to the seaside town of Gansbaai, where our day’s activity would commence. As we neared our destination, the sky began to lighten, illuminating…
The sun would rise at any moment. I stood in an open grassy space in the Serengeti and watched a half dozen men prepare the green and white hot air balloon that billowed in the light breeze. Every few seconds I turned toward the horizon behind me, afraid that I might miss the sun’s…
I found it. That something ‘different’ I’d been seeking but couldn’t quite put into words? It’s here in Africa. It began on the red eye from Rome to Ethiopia. I’d fallen asleep, despite that the two long-limbed African men on either side of me saw no reason to share the armrests, when I was awoken…
Somewhere Seeking 