After Pieter completed the grueling 8-day Cape Epic Mountain Bike race successfully with his stellar Czech partner Milan (the team landed on the podium 3 times), it was time to get serious about organizing our trip to Malawi. We had gotten our car, a Defender, and spontaneously named it “Tin-Tin” (see pics to see why). [click to read more]

One of the activities I like to do is paragliding.  I started paragliding in 2004 at Torrey Pines Glider Port (TPGP).  The flying at TPGP is slope soaring since there is a prevailing west wind coming in from the ocean.  When the conditions are right it is a wonderful place to fly and it is a particularly good spot [click to read more]

The blood of Africa.  It flows in people who live on the great plains, along the lakes and mountains of the Rift Valley.  People who trek across the great desserts, tend their sheep on the highlands of Ethiopia and work in the vineyards of the Cape.  People who live from Cairo to Cape Town, on [click to read more]