Ostrich Farm South Africa

Oddly Cute – Visiting an Ostrich Farm in Oudtshoorn, South Africa

There is usually one stop on the tour that you think “really?  this is a worthwhile place to visit? or wow, just another shopping stop for the tourists” (think that diamond store stop – really, who is buying diamonds on vacation at the tour stop?). When I saw that the […]

Impala and monkey on safari

Walking Safari in Botswana – Tracking the Animals

After all of the traveling, I was ready to go on my walking safari, whatever that meant in the Okavango Delta.  While I had read about “going on safari”, I hadn’t a clue what that actually entailed but I was about to find out.  Walking from my “room” (tent at […]

Mokoro boats at Oddballs camp Okavango Delta Moremi

Botswana Safari Review – Oddballs Camp in the Okavango Delta

Landing in Maun, Botswana, the airport was awash in small bush planes and one building for passengers to transit.  You exit the plane and walk to the terminal -something that became commonplace in Africa -walking to/from your plane  which I liked.  I had been traveling for four days to get […]

Giraffe eating in Botswana safari photo

Easy Safari Photo Tips – The Art of Nature in Africa

My earliest memories of my first camera used flash cubes and 110 film cartridges.  I then graduated to the Polaroid One Step camera which with a few waves in the air (like you just don’t care) the image magically appeared.  For a grade schooler in the 1970’s, this was so […]

Hippo yawning in South Africa

My Scary Experience Searching for Hippos on Safari in Botswana

After two walking treks in the Okavango Delta at Oddball’s Camp in the Moremi Game Reserve, I hadn’t yet seen any hippos – we had only heard them at dinner time around the camp.   So when the Canadian couple mentioned that for their afternoon trek they were going to look for hippos, I […]

Elephant South Africa Safari

The 27 day African Safari Itinerary – Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa

My African Safari was almost a month long encompassing South Africa (Johannesburg, Capetown and the Garden Route), Botswana (Okavango Delta and Chobe Safari Park) and Zimbabwe (Victoria Falls).  The incredible “bucket list” worthy trip using points inspired me to start this blog to share my experience.  While I originally posted […]

Table Mountain two girls on rock

Finding Inspiration, Dream Trips and Adventure at the Travel Show

Travel inspiration, where do you find it?  In a movie, a book, from Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, a friend, brochure, email, mailing, etc.  There are so many travel images, stories and options coming at you on a daily basis it’s hard to filter out where to go (at least for me) […]