Last year, I wrote and submitted a number of articles to the Pinelands Muse community magazine and the Reserve Force Volunteer magazine, as well as the Equestrian Express and the Sawubona in-flight magazine of South African Airways, our national carrier. In order to update my CV at the start of January, I compiled a list, which I thought I’d share with you, in case you are curious.
After our relaxing hikes at Bernheim Forest on Saturday afternoon, we drove further south to the town of Bowling Green, where we stayed overnight. If you are a lover of fast and shiny cars, you may be interested to hear that Bowling Green is best known for its National Corvette Museum, which documents the world…
After bidding farewell to our friends in the beautiful Victorian neighbourhood of Old Louisville, we took the I-65 southbound, soon leaving Louisville behind us. We were motoring nicely along the interstate, when I saw a sign up ahead for a Rest Area with a Welcome Centre. I was curious to see what this was, so…
When my penpal Bobz and I recently met in person (an unforgettable and totally wonderful experience that I shared with you here), we spent some happy companionable hours going through all my old letters and postcards and assorted things I had sent him over the 25 years that we had been penpals. I was so…
The Bluegrass region of Kentucky is famous for its magnificent horses and its superb bourbon whiskey. Do you know why Kentucky’s nickname is ‘the Bluegrass State’? It is so named because of the bluegrass (Poa pratensis) that grows in the fertile soil of its pastures. Incidentally, this has also given its name to the distinctive…
In our defence, we were only intending to shoot them photographically. So I don’t know why they were playing hide-and-seek with us. All along the highway between Hazard and Hindman, Kentucky, where I was staying with my friend Bobz and his family during our little American roadtrip earlier this year, there were signs warning of…
One day, Bobz, Dana and I visited the Challenger Learning Centre for Space Science Education on the campus of the Hazard Community and Technical College in eastern Kentucky. This is one of 48 such centres around the United States. They were created by the families of the seven astronauts who died when the Space Shuttle…
When travelling to a foreign country – even one as familiar from the movies and the television as the United States of America no doubt is – it is helpful to remember that one is not at home. Some things work a little differently across the pond. In case you are willing to brave the…
Sunday, 26 February 2012, is a day that will forever be etched upon my memory as the day on which Bobz and I finally met each other, face to face, for the very first time. In that one instant, he had become more than his distinctive scrawl on a postcard or a letter that had…
In February/March this year, we visited the United States of America for three weeks. I took a break from blogging in order to start writing up the story of our trip, and hope that you will enjoy reading the upcoming series of posts. Please bear with me if this process takes some time. For now,…
Grains of Sand 