I Spent the Best Day of My Life In A Burmese Elephant Retirement Home

Often when you’re traveling you just stumble upon things, things that end up…

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I Finally Learned How To Put On a Decent Skeleton Face

I went to Oaxaca for the Day of the Dead celebration this year…

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Flying Singapore Airlines in First Class

Singapore Airlines First Class Suites Ruined My Life

In August I had a super awesome, amazingly bright idea: I was going…

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Zebra, Crocodile and Antelope Oh My! I Ate it All at Carnivore, the Meat Lover’s Paradise

Where: Carnivore restaurant, Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre and Spa in Muldersdrift, Johannesburg. (There…

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Happy Halloween and Welcome to my Scary Love Life Which Sucks So Bad I Went To a South African Muthi (Voodoo) Master

Those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember the saga of Hickey…

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Think Apartheid Is Over? Think Again – This South African Town Is Whites Only

Twenty years after Apartheid ended in South Africa, there still exists a small…

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Anticarjacking Class? Sign Me Up! I Attend the Ultimate Driving School

South Africa has a hijacking problem (carjacking is called hijacking in South Africa)….

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Downing Some Serious Moonshine with the legendary “Shebeen Queens”

Shebeens, illegal South African neighborhood bars that originated under apartheid, continue to operate…

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South Africa’s Shark Spotters

Scanning for Great White Sharks with South Africa’s Shark Spotting Network

In this episode of A Broad Abroad, I meet the Cape Town Shark Spotters…

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The Dubious Dawa Man of Carnivore

http://youtu.be/MOce74zEBPg The dubious Dawa (medicine) man of Carnivore restaurant – the ultimate tourist trap in…

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