The Red Location Museum is an Apartheid museum in New Brighton township of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
… the floor space contains various “memory boxes”, each one exhibiting the life story or perspective of people or groups who fought against the Apartheid regime. …
It’s in the middle of one of the Townships, a place where the poor live.
We visited at night, a private tour after closing.
Very impressive.
Very moving.
… Many prominent political and cultural leaders were either born or lived in Red Location and a number of significant “struggle” (umZabalazo) events occurred here. …
It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …
… expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7” (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.
Flora and fauna
More than 450 elephants, 400 Cape buffalo, over 48 endangered black rhino …
Lion and spotted hyena has also recently been re-introduced to the area.
The largest remaining population of the flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is located within the park. …
Most exciting was a rare sighting of the bar-eared fox – 4 of them. (VIDEO)
My old friend Colin, many years at University of Winnipeg, returned to his burned or burnt country of Australia for retirement.
March 4th, 2013 he said goodbye to his 93yr-old Mom and jumped into his used 19 foot pop top Caravan. It has a 3-burner gas cooktop and gas gorilla, built-in fridge, a roof mounted air conditioner
He (and friends at times) are on the road in Aussie for a year.
I came across a statistic the other day that claimed only about ten percent of Americans have traveled outside their country. There is no reason for this. The recession is not an explanation …
… I count among my friends the most-traveled man in history, Paul Theroux. Not only has he written many wonderful novels and short stories, but a shelf of travel books. …
He is the most widely-read man I know, and he suffers my company because I have heard of Mrs. Gaskell and Oliver Onions, and I share his opinion that for a book to read on a journey, nobody beats Simenon.
I told him one quiet afternoon that with his eyes he had seen more of the surface of the earth at ground level than any other man had, and any other man ever would. He said he had never thought of it that way. …
Has travel broadened him? He says not. He is rather notorious for having written, “Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation; and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.” …
Why then, does Theroux travel? “The greatest justification for travel,” he wrote in Dark Star Safari, “is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. …
Dave Sykes linked to a post by a fellow returned from 9 months living out of a backpack in New Zealand:
… One of the most surprising discoveries I made during my trip was that I spent much less per month traveling foreign counties (including countries more expensive than Canada) than I did as a regular working joe back home.
I had much more free time, I was visiting some of the most beautiful places in the world, I was meeting new people left and right, I was calm and peaceful and otherwise having an unforgettable time, and somehow it cost me much less than my humble 9-5 lifestyle here in one of Canada’s least expensive cities.
It seems I got much more for my dollar when I was traveling. Why? …
Rick McCharles 