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Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh…
Are hiking at Cape Point and Lions Head.Now that it wasn’t pouring we went out to try the Cape Point tourist route again. But while it was dry, it was windy as all hell.This didn’t affect us much while penguin viewingBut it damn near ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Abandoning Josh to Table Mountain while he takes care of some work stuff.That work stuff was a lovely goodbye/early-christmas-cause-its-the-only-time-we-can-get-a-majority-of-our-office-in-the-same-country-at-the-same-time lunch.
I caused a min...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh are…
In De Hoop Nature Reserve.Where its fucking windy.
Described as the wilderness highlight of the Western Cape (the increasingly superlative Rough Guide again) its marked by sand dunes, whale watching opportunities and untold amounts of...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh are…
Bungee jump safari-ing.Well, Josh isn’t bungee jumping. I am the only one who did that.
I’ve never bungee jumped before, never really felt a tremendous urge to do so. I generally wouldn’t call myself an adrenalin junkie. (Though...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh are…
At the mouth of Storms River.A “dramatic estuary” on an “exhilarating stretch of coast” (can you tell someone has been reading his guidebook) Storms River is really the only place Josh and I specifically picked out as a must s...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh are…
Whale watching in Hermanus.Hermanus bills itself as the whale watching capital of the world, and it is in fact one of the finest places to whale watch from shore. So good in fact, that it has the world’s only ‘whale crier’ who w...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave and Josh are…
At Gazelle.Ah, what better way to introduce a friend to the wonders of Africa than with a rare club performance by Gazelle, the greatest band this side of the planet Peelander. (CHECK THEM OUT HERE) Justin, Gabe and I have been rabidl...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
At the airport welcoming Josh to South Africa.
This evening my first, and ultimately only, non-related visitor arrived in South Africa. My former roommate he met up with me during my year of travel for a run through Transylvania, playing a crit...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Finishing his last day at work.
If yesterday saw the conclusion of my time at UCT, today was the official conclusion of my time at ICTJ though I still have a couple things outstanding not to mention a few goodbye meals. Still, the last day pass...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Briefly remembering to be an actual student.Micha studying through osmosis.
It’s scary but at this point the person who is most on the same wavelength as me is this tall crazy-ass Belgian who goes around yelling at girls he doesn’t know to ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Celebrating Gabe’s last night and Ed and Alexis’ engagement.So Gabe leaves tomorrow to take up his new job with the UN in Pretoria. For all of us suffering through law school the idea of employment, especially with the UN and especially wit...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
At The Nutcracker Ballet.
Now long time readers (I mean long time, going all the way back to the early days in ’06) know that while I generally could not care less about the ballet, I love The Nutcracker. I used to go to the Springfield produ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
At a Whiskey Exhibition at the Cape Town International Convention Center.Don’t ever go to Whiskey Exhibitions. They do not end well.
That is all I am going to say on the matter, cept adding that I have to buy a new cell phone after losing the...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Right off the plane and onto the beach.I took this photo for Pablo.
As if Cape Town needed to further contrast itself from the States, an hour after I landed in the 80 degree sunshine I was relaxing on Llaundando Beach watching the surfers and ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
En route back to the Dark Continent.
This is the kind of thing that really makes me miss the City. Boba Fett just doesnt play enough accordion in Cape Town
Well, the brief interlude is over and it’s back to the grind of sun and surf in Cape...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
At Josie’s, where all is right with the world.I’d like to say that Meeta’s nuptials were the only inducement to a weekend in New York, but…. That’d be lying. A small part of me was pretty excited at the prospect of squeezing in on...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Watching Meeta get married.And it couldn’t have been nicer. I confess I thought it was a little weird when I first heard she was having her wedding on Halloween but not having it costumed or anything. But it did allow her to get Galapagos as ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
Back in NYC and back at NYU.I hadn’t told anybody really cept Meeta and Jeff that I was coming back for the wedding but since I am here I figured I’d make a surprise appearance at NYU Law’s Fall Ball.I confess it was pretty entertaining w...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
On a 19.5 hour flight back to New York City that stops over in Senegal.
Despite the fact school will be done by Nov. 9th and the fact that people have already started to take off (notably Max who left yesterday and who will be sorely missed) I ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 2 years ago.
Dave is…
As exhausted as he’s ever been.I have never seen a more ragged group than the ones that gathered limply together this morning. The couple hours of sleep everyone got after a late night of pillaging and breakfast at Cape Town icon Melissa’s ...
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