Revitalized Joburg, a Market for Healers, Art and Meeting the Photography Group

March 30

Freedom picks me up after breakfast and we meet Angus to explore the revitalized areas of downtown Joburg. We start our urban exploration in Braamfontein, where on Saturdays a parking garage is transformed into a happening area of food, music and boutiques, which attracts crowds to the area.

After exploring and tasting, […]

March 30th, 2019 | Category: south Africa, 2019 | 5 comments

Angus and Photographing in Joburg

March 29

My travel agents, Jean and Ahdina Zunkel, have kindly arranged for me to spend the day with Angus Begg, a CNN award-winning television producer, and the first South African broadcast journalist to report from the chaos of Somalia in 1992. He went on to cover the Rwandan genocide of ’94 and South Africa’s […]

March 29th, 2019 | Category: south Africa, 2019 | 5 comments

Thoughts on the Flight to Joburg

March 27-28

Well, here I am, sitting on a plane, only about nineteen hours from landing in Joburg. I have a 2-hour flight to Atlanta, about a 2-hour layover there, and then a 15-hour flight to Joburg. So, whattayoudo?

Well, there’s certainly no rush. My current plan is the following:

Do a little blogging

Perhaps […]

March 28th, 2019 | Category: south Africa, 2019 | 3 comments

Preparing for South Africa

March 26

Well, tomorrow I head to South Africa.

Yes, I know I just got back from Morocco a week ago, so it may seem a bit strange to be heading back to Africa, but here’s how it happened. My trip to South Africa is with a small photo group, and I’d booked that trip, […]

March 26th, 2019 | Category: south Africa, 2019 | 6 comments
 
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