Recent Comments
Categories
- Agriculture (2)
- Music (26)
- Pennsylvania (8)
- Photos (18)
- Research (2)
- reviews (2)
- Thoughts (33)
- Travels (29)
- Uncategorized (27)
Archives: by month
Blogroll
Tags!
Anyhow Auto beauty blog call car city CLICK concert Draft everything home house land life line little holland love low quality meaningful comments minute mountain person pretoria recording road rock show Side song Sort spring state story street sun tea time today tomorrow truck University UPDATE way while
Category Archives: Travels
bleeding together
The days are really bleeding together now–not like wounded soldiers or mischievous brothers, more like the different dyes in a hurried batik. ‘Time’ flies and crawls and flies some more. Soon, i’ll be flying back to that land where i have … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Thoughts, Travels
Tagged baby owl, blog, burning rays, dirt road, father, home, kings of the world, land, lifeguard certification, mountain, mudstone, philosophical debate, reason, road, storm, strange mix, stupid bird, time flies, valley, way
7 Comments
“all in a day”
Dear IAA members (“Internet Addicts Anonymous, that is), i would like to report that it has been one week since my last installment of internet usage. i have been in one thousand places and done three thousand things. i have … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Travels
Tagged Addicts, afterall, ambiguous statement, Anyhow, beauty, campstove, car, couple hours, dagga, driveway, geological features, highway, Hitting, home, internet addicts, internet usage, intricate beauty, local lingo, tea, waterfall
13 Comments
a glimpse of Limpopo
Hello. Let me start by saying that there are some things which photos simply cannot capture and that words cannot describe. These past five days which i spent in the mountains are those type of things. Plans are like water … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Travels
Tagged alone in the dark, apartheid, Band, business, change, city, farm, green bush, home, house, inebriated, local music, motorbike, mountain, music legend, nobody, pansy, pretoria, type, valley, yonni
15 Comments
to Limpopo, now!
If you’re looking for me, i’ll be “down by the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo river…” You see, that quoted line is from a book we read a lot when we were chillunz (kids). So, i am so … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts, Travels
Tagged american dollar, chillunz, concert, greasy limpopo river, home, inebriated, leather interior, leaving today, limpopo river, line, one, reggae, reggae band, relative term, ride, today, van, Volkswagen, volkswagen van, white leather
2 Comments
a happy ending.
Now it’s time to tie up a loose end of an earlier story. You may remember my friend Paul. That is his apostle name. His African name, as he says, is Metobohay, which means jumping one. Here he sits with … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Thoughts, Travels
Tagged 2 friends, baboons, breezes, camp, center, climb, elation, friend paul, house, left shoulder, loose end, Mogau, mountain, murderers, nap, rapists, squatter camp, story, three friends, time
4 Comments
Mother of Melodies and Rain
it rained. and it was good. then, it rained some more. and it was still good. then it was cloudy. then it was blustery (can i say that to mean breezy?). and now it is raining some more. and it … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts, Travels
Tagged afrikaans, child, dark sky, democratic rights, group assignment, guest lecturer, house, lecturer, lightening strikes, melodies, puddles, rain dance, rights and responsibilities, sky, splitting, storm, student, time, township, way
4 Comments
Part Two: I Miss You
To be honest, sometimes i am very homesick. Small bouts of longing will overtake me at random–often at times when it makes no sense. For instance, recently, i was riding in the back of a pickup truck, going 45 kilometers … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts, Travels
Tagged african sunset, Anyhow, bouts, capital, cave, city, cow, front porch, home, kilometers per hour, places in the world, political groups, soccer team, Sort, stinky, tiny boy, truck, way, whiff, work friends
7 Comments
“There & Back Again”
Have you ever read The Hobbit? Bilbo Baggins loves to be in his home with the water “galloping in the kettle, all ready for tea.” Me too. He also seems to get himself involved in some adventures. I’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Travels
Tagged Anyhow, Baggins, bilbo baggins, Bilbo--a, bogus claims, car, hastle, home, life, life on the edge, loving man, machine guns, money, northern zimbabwe, police, radar gun, seven wonders of the world, snippits, tea, teh, thomas peter, vic falls, victoria falls, way
12 Comments
leaving the country…again.
It’s Spring Break. Four friends and i have rented a car. We’ll be driving to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Also, we’ll be going to the desert in Batswana. We have 12 days, free minds, the advantage of out currency, and … Continue reading
Posted in Travels
Tagged alarm clock, apartheid, Batswana, car, currency, Delta, four friends, free minds, home away from home, indication, itchy feet, meander, nonexistant, road, shark attacks, spring, time, victoria falls, world cup 2010
5 Comments