5 Days in Cape Town: Day 2 Driving Round the Peninsula
If you missed, Day 1 of our trip, you can catch up here. Breakfast Day 2 was a Saturday and we started the day with breakfast at the Oranjezicht City Farmers Market just 5 minutes from our apartment. My sister-in-law and the fitter members of…
Peak Design Everyday Backpack: Review (part 2)
This is the follow-on report I promised when I wrote the original blog post some months back. I have now lived with the Everyday Backpack on multiple continents and taken several trips with it. So I feel I have given it enough time to give…
5 Days in Cape Town: Day 1 Waterfront and Winefarms
Overview Our trip took place in late May. The weather was mild, and as we were visiting in off-peak season prices were lower than in the summer and nothing was crowded. We = two adults + 2 teens (our daughter and her friend). We would…
Honeybee Coffee Shop: Farragut
Whether you are passing through Knoxville or happen to live there, you will want to try out the Honeybee Coffee Shop in Farragut. It is conveniently located on Kingston Pike – but the sign doesn’t stand out very well so look carefully or you may…
Clock tower at Cape Town Waterfront, now and then.
This clock tower was the original Port Captain’s office at the Cape Town harbor, built in 1882. The clock itself was imported from Edinburgh and placed in a gothic style tower. An amazing fact is the red color of the tower is exactly the same…
5 Days in Jamaica
[three_fourth] We (2 adults and 2 teens) visited Jamaica over Spring Break. This was our first visit so we had no idea what to expect. Our impressions Jamaicans, for the most part, are very friendly people. They are very laid back and operate on island…
Reaching new heights – Clingman’s Dome
Over 11 million people can’t be wrong! That’s how many people visited the Great Smokey National Park in 2016. Only the Blue Ridge Parkway (close by the Smokies) and the Golden Gate National Recreational Area receive a higher number of visitors. The Smokies cover a…
Fountain and Light Show, Dubai Mall
Everything about Dubai is artificial. Apart from the sand in the desert areas. Like Las Vegas, everything is man-made and man-centric. That is not to say it’s bad. It is actually amazing what they have managed to create out of a desert in such a…
The Indonesian Archipelago
I recently traveled to Indonesia for my work and went to a part that I had never been to before. Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands, the exact number of which depends on the definition and sources you use. But it is safe…
Mobile Passport App: A way to skip the lines at US Customs
No one enjoys standing in long lines to get through customs when you arrive back in the USA from a trip abroad. As a result, many frequent fliers have signed up for Global Entry. I don’t travel enough to make it worth the 3-hour drive…