As I write this, I am in the home stretch of our return trip from South Africa. 26 hours down, just 2 to go…

My fam­ily and I spent the last three weeks sight­see­ing, learn­ing, sun­ning and surf­ing our way through this amaz­ing yet chal­lenged coun­try. We were so very for­tu­nate to join my sis­ter, her South African hus­band and their three won­der­ful kids on this trip. My brother-in-law Mark was a fan­tas­tic tour guide.

Our sched­ule was action packed. We saw pen­guins on the beach, vis­ited the Apartheid Museum, hiked through beau­ti­ful moun­tains, went zip lin­ing over rivers, and rode Ostriches. We went on game dri­ves where we saw lions, rhi­nos, ele­phants, and wilde­beests. We learned a lot about their bro­ken gov­ern­men­tal system.

And yes, I finally surfed my dream wave at Jeffrey’s Bay.

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