Ok, so I’ve neglected the blog for the entire trip! I was just too tired most days to log on to the internet, nevermind trying to write something. But we are home now, I’m rested, and Sue has been asking me to write about one particular story. I’ll call it Traveler’s Lesson [...]

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Sawubona everyone!
Today we visited a Zulu village, homestead and high school. Our game reserve guide Norman is Zulu and has been telling us about his culture and beliefs all week. By the time we arrived at this rural village Jenn and I were both very interested in how the Zulu people live. But we soon [...]

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Today is Saturday and we’ve been learning a lot about the history and culture of the Zulu people since we arrived a week ago. We’ve also become friends with a few of the Zulu people we’ve met - our guide Norman being one of them.
This week I’ve also met a young Zulu woman who, for [...]

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Hi all! We’ve been out of communication for the last few days because internet access hasn’t made it to bush yet!  But we’ve finally landed someplace that has internet access so now i have four days worth of events to tell you. Geeze… Where to begin??
Jenn and I left the coastal village of Umhlanga on Friday morning and drove north thruogh [...]

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Jenn and I just watched the sun rise over the Indian Ocean from our hotel room balcony. What a beautiful sight!
We’re off to breakfast now, and then heading up north to stay at a lodge in the bush at the Nambiti Conservancy (in the elephant safari lodge). They have the “big five” which is [...]

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Hi All. I’m finally up and walking after a very long 24 hours, and feeling much better. Thanks for the well wishes. Jenn did a great job taking care of me all night and today… This side-effects of this drug, malarone, gave me the same symptoms as malaria — and they are not [...]

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This will be a short note because I am heading out to the beach at Umhlanga rocks. Just wanted to let everyone know (mainly Mom and Dad) that we have changed our plans and are staying here in Umhlanga rocks at least for tonight, maybe longer.
Susie seems to be having what the homeopathic doctor [...]

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Hi All,
Forgot to mention last night that we do not have cell phone access.  The world phone I brought is not “unlocked” for networks outside of ATT. I haven’t used this phone in so long, that I forgot about this.  Hopefully in the next day or two, we’ll connect with a guy.. who knows a [...]

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Hi All! We’ve made it to our first destination, Umhlanga Rocks, which sits on the Indian Ocean just above the port city of Durban. Driving the two hours here was a bit scary, mostly because we were tired…. and people here drive on the WRONG side of the road.
I drove [...]

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Hi all,
I’m not going to upload any more photos while I’m here.  It’s too time consuming. I’ll send them out after I get back.
For those of you who try to access the site I posted earlier, sorry but I changed the password for privacy purposes.  I didn’t really think people we didn’t know would read [...]

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