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South Africa: A Trip in the Making
I left for South Africa just over a month ago, flying from Denver to Frankfurt to Cape Town, for a three-week stay. The trip was the zenith of a 10-month journey into the subject of leadership, which I...
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South Africa: Reminder From My Elders
Of what is joy made? From where does it spring? Who best knows how to capture it? If I thought I knew the answers to these questions, I got the opportunity to rethink them on a recent trip to South...
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A View From the Inside
Robben Island (robben is Dutch for “seal”) is a stunning sanctuary within sight of Cape Town. This vantage point affords spectacular views of Table Mountain and its famous roiling “table cloth” of...
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Tales From the Bush
We’re storytellers by nature. The truth of this came back to me while on safari in South Africa. Everyone I met as I traveled on the fringes of Kruger National Park—drivers, hosts, rangers, game drive...
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Myth and Mandela
One sunny afternoon while visiting Cape Town, I took the ferry to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years incarcerated for activism against apartheid. View the slideshow (photos by...
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The Attraction of Cloth
My travel consultant asked me to make a list of all the things I wanted to do on my trip to South Africa. This set me to dreaming and soon, I had a long list of possibilities. Near the top were...
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Safari Code Breaker
Dropping down over the Drakensberg escarpment, an immense shelf of land that gives way in great carved ravines to the vast plains below, I was awed by its magnitude. Instinctively, I felt my arrival in...
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Stellenbosch Wine Country: Where Old World Pairs with New
Stellenbosch is a bit of paradise. There just isn’t much that’s more stunning than a place devoted to growing grapes—it’s something about the terrain and climate grapes prefer that makes for relentless...
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Safari Totems
Animals have long played a role in mirroring human behavior and personality types. Indeed, every culture has its animal lore, from the Egyptian falcon to the coyote of Native Americans to the ox, dog...
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A View of Ubuntu
After three weeks in South Africa, the last of which I’d spent on safari near Kruger National Park, I flew to Johannesburg where I had a layover of a few hours before my flight back to the states. I’d...
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