buy generic stromectol June 21st. We had left Oudtshoorn much later than we wanted, and the road was gorgeous – in farm country at the foot of a superlatively beautiful range of mountains – and so we were stopping constantly to get out and enjoy views. Night fell and it became time to look for a place to […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Into a Blackout.
23-Jun-15In the Ostrich Capital of the World.
23-Jun-15Assemini June 21st. Oudtshoorn is the first really nice place we’ve seen here. It has trees and finally it feels like we are out of the desert. Lovely old houses on large properties – it reminds me of some prosperous upstate New York towns, but with different details: the houses here are built of sandstone, and […]
Across the Great Karoo.
23-Jun-15June 20th. Almost everyone we spoke with thought it was a bit crazy to drive across the Great Karoo, but we assured them we Americans like open spaces. I think for people from other countries, it seems like a long drive. To us it was an adventure – across the entire country, blasting through […]
The Latinosphere.
23-Jun-15June 20th. A detail I forgot, from the Latinosphere, the small world we Latinists live in: the day after our arrival, before going to Pilanesberg, I met the Classicists in Potchefstroom. We had lunch together, and in the afternoon we all attended a lecture via Skype, from San Antonio, Texas. The lecture was given by […]
The Big Hole.
22-Jun-15June 20th. We visited the Big Hole before leaving Kimberley. The Big Hole is a massive crater at the edge of Kimberley’s center: it looks so large as to be a natural feature, but it was excavated entirely by hand, through bedrock. The open pit is more than 600 feet deep, and via underground shafts […]
Cape Gooseberries.
22-Jun-15For breakfast here several times I have had what are called “Cape Gooseberries” – which, while I am not an expert on gooseberries, I was fairly sure were not gooseberries. They looked solanaceous to me – like ground cherries, and so I presumed they were from the New World, though their association with the Cape […]
At Cecil Rhodes’ Club in Kimberley.
22-Jun-15June 19th. Got up late this morning, after breaking the fever and soaking through my clothes. Feeling much better, in general. Got a “map” – really a kind of travel guide to South Africa with decent maps, as I can’t even be sure that maps, say of the various provinces of the country, are actually […]
The Rains Down in Africa.
22-Jun-15June 19th. Driving yesterday outside Pilanesberg National Park, we switched radio stations, and what was on but Toto’s Africa. We just looked at each other. I guess it does make sense that that song gets played here.
Africa Without A Map.
21-Jun-15June 18th. I can barely write I’m so exhausted. Catherine and I planned to start our road trip today down to the Cape of Good Hope, but instead we decided to take a day trip north, to Pilanesberg National Park, and set out on the long trip tomorrow. Marianne said it would be a two […]
Autumn in Africa.
21-Jun-15June 17th. Woke up to the sound of what sounded like particularly powerful purring – insistent purring, like someone had recorded a large cat and used it as an alarm on a clock. It was the birds – birds of Africa. I presume it was the sound of the doves, which were all over the […]