Adventures of an Expat in South Africa
Climbing Kili is magical. For many people it's also life-changing. If you already live in Africa, especially at high altitude in Johannesburg, you'd do yourself a disservice if you didn't give the highest free-standing mountain in the world at least serious consideration. You don't need to be a mountain-climber. All you need is a spirit of adventure, and perhaps more importantly, a sense of humor.
DAY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 2015
TIME: 8 AM TO 8 PM CENTRAL TIME
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The thing that’s so much fun about being a new author is that there is a first time for everything, much like milestones in your child’s life. First sale, first time someone leaves ...
I may have managed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, but one thing I didn’t manage to do was use my climb to raise money ...
It was long in coming – one year, to the day – but now it is done: Kilimanjaro Diaries has been translated into German and is now available in the Kindle store.
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Then you move back home, and that year is kind of busy too. You pack and unpack household goods until they come out your ears, you get settled in new schools and places of work, and once again you have plenty to write about.
Then comes the year AFTER, and nothing much happens in it at all. You go about ...
You don’t have to have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to be able to answer a bit of trivia about it. You don’t even have to have read Kilimanjaro Diaries, though it does help a great deal. You will be an instant teacher’s pet if you have.
For instance, do you know how many attempts ...
Next month, September, will mark my 2-year anniversary of having reached the summit of Kilimanjaro.
It will also be the 2-year anniversary of handing over the reins of Alexandra Baseball to my wonderful successors, the Irwin family, after I found out my own family was relocating to the United States.
Just ...
“I love reading your blog, when will you write ‘Joburg Expat The Book’?” is a questions I’ve gotten more than once over the years.
Now I have written and published my first book, and it has nothing to do with being an expat or living in Johannesburg, seeing as its main ...
I know you’re just dying to find out which might be the most important item to pack in your Kilimanjaro bag – the wet wipes or the hiking poles (hint: It’s a close one!).
Or how many Tanzanian shillings you should bring to cover all the alcohol you need to get senselessly drunk at ...
After months of wading knee-deep in paragraph styles, margins, and those devilish Word section breaks I’ll soon tell you more about, it feels almost anticlimactic. It feels more like I want to take a long rest, especially from all things keyboard and word processor. And yet I do want to celebrate ...
