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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Homeward Bound, Reflections

March 19

Shuttle to the airport, then ride modern airport transit train to our terminal,

where we have a couple hours to breakfast and hang out in the VIP Lounge before our non-stop 9-hour flight home. For those of you who recall the opening posts of this trip in which photos of our luggage 51 […]

Leaving Kasbah Tamadot for Madridj

March 18

Note: because I failed to put a title on yesterday’s blog post, you may have had difficulty finding it. Here’s a link in case you’d like to read it now https://dualartspress.com/6775-2.

Having packed yesterday, we have a relaxing morning after breakfast at the hotel. Carol reads on our balcony; I sit out by […]