South Africa 2008 – Cape Town
It was a smooth flight from Livingstone to Johannesburg from and then on to Cape Town. It was very relaxing to get to the Cape Grace Hotel, and quite a contrast to the Victoria Falls Hotel. Cape Town is a beautiful city, especially on the harbor. There are more shops and restaurants than you could […]
South Africa 2008 – Victoria Falls
If there is a “must see” in South Africa it would be Victoria Falls. My bottom line would be that if you go there to make it a day trip and be sure to fly directly to the Victoria Falls airport. The way we made the trip turned out to very complicated. Just like Niagara […]
South Africa 2008 – MalaMala
The most interesting part of MalaMala is seeing the animals but I was also interested in the aviation aspects of the trip. We headed to MalaMala from Johannesburg aboard a 29 passenger Jetstream 41 regional turboprop airliner which is made by British Aerospace. Their were two pilots, a flight attendant, and six passengers. I don’t […]
Back From Africa
The trip back from Africa took twenty-nine hours. If you include the half day in Cape Town’s wine country before going to the airport plus an evening event back home, the forty-five hours made for a really long "day". We left the hotel in Cape Town at 9am on Friday morning — it was 2am […]
Upstate New York
More about the iPhone and WiFi soon but first a final travelogue for the summer. The total Trike ride was 550 miles. The first day got us up close to Utica where my brother lives. Utica is situated in the Mohawk Valley and is the county seat of Oneida County. Like many industrial towns and […]