Sharing from the heart
One of the desires I have felt in my heart for a long time is to write. To share with the world the inner chambers of my experience, in all it’s vulnerability, in the expectation that the sharing from my heart will touch those who are aligned and that it will spread love and light, inspiration and joy. Doing this takes courage and it is something, I discovered, that does not work in baby steps. It requires a leap. So here I am, leaping, and trusting I will be okay at the other end of this extremely vulnerable expedition. Our first week in Houtbay we went through a big learning curve....
Read MoreHow to plan for a RTW trip – flights
It’s time for something different. This blog post today does not contain an update on our whereabouts, but is a blog for our new page resources. This post will show you our insights on how to buy your Round The World(RTW) tickets. Many evenings and weekends were spent in preparing for our trip. Some people who decide to do a trip like this start planning two or three years ahead. We did it a bit faster, we made the decision that we wanted to travel for a year in June 2014 and we left our home early December. So we had exactly 6 months to get ready for this adventure. In the process we...
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The Milky Way is back
Last night I was reading an article about a South African photographer, Ian van Straaten. He lives here in the Karoo and he has made it his mission to show the world the Milky Way. According to this interview about 80% of the world population will never see the Milky Way in their life, due to light pollution from cities. Ian has made it his mission to show the world the Milky Way and he gets up every night, drives around the Karoo and takes pictures of the sky filled with stars. As I looked outside from our patio, I could see a pitch dark sky with millions of stars and indeed I could see the...
Read MorePictures Grootbos and Franskraal
New pictures have been uploaded from Grootbos and our stay in Franskraal. You can find them at the bottom of the folder South Africa under pictures. Blog will follow later.
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