

A Very Merry Christmas
Things you should know about me: 1) I love my birthday (which I should've mentioned by now and if I haven't well you should know this -...


A Trip Home
Landing in Cape town is always a slightly emotional experience for me. We moved to Cape Town when I was 2 and a half (the half is very...


Ted's Tours: The One Where We Go Home
Before I get started, I would like to say that I had originally planned to write up the Safari in seven parts. If you can count/have kept...


VLOG: A Transkei Journey
Heyyyyyyy I made another one! And it only took me four months! Is that applause I hear? No? Sounds about right. I ask you now to harken...


Book Review: A Rumour of Spring
5/5 The book is a fantastic introduction to the traumatic legacy left by apartheid in the rainbow nation as well as where the current...


Book Review: Outliers
4/5 I picked this book up accidentally in Ted's house and I did not put it down until I finished it. In the past, I have not been a...


Ted's Tours: Border Crossings
Day two brought with it the dreaded border crossing. We had ear marked this day as our most difficult as we were crossing over to...


Ted's Tours: An Unexpected Journey*
I am going to split up my safari story into multiple parts, but I am hoping – unlike The Hobbit films – that this journey warrants more...


Transkei Popsicles
When I was a freshman/first year at Dartmouth, I had the good luck of a) being surrounded from day one by extraordinary people who have...


Scaling Mountains (sort of)
Molweni! This week has been a bit of a whirlwind as I travelled through the Transkei with my brother James, Mark, Kate, and Kate's friend...