Courtenay Brown

I went with Dan to his family's traditional vacation spot, in Langebaan, a town on South Africa's Atlantic coast that is about a two hour drive from Stellenbosch. It was a great long weekend! It seems that a tradition in this community is for extended families to vacation together, so I got to meet some of Dan's uncles and cousins and also his friends' extended families as well. Everyone was incredibly hospitable to me, and very knowledgeable of both American politics/economics and world affairs. Conversations were consistently productive. Everyone was also very active so there was lots of training over the weekend, enough to finish off the last ...

OK I know I posted this photo last time, but my mom said it was confusing. What happened was I rode with my camera in my jersey pocket, the lens side facing my body, and after a very short while the lens had sweat condensed all over it. I didn't realize it until the halfway point in the ride where I reviewed the tons of photos I took... the ostriches were all muddled, the mountains like a toddler's painting, everything but this photo turned out a mess. This one I love because the sweat on the lens made it much more true to life than it would have been ...

I arrived in South Africa nearly a week ago now, after throwing together papers and grades and getting the heck out of Siberia Colorado. It's amazing, I am so happy I came! Honestly the only disappointment thus far was that on the plane from Amsterdam to Cape Town we had a real-time map of where we were and I slept through Libya. How boring of me to miss it! Here's a rough description of the week: I am in Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape province, where Dan Hugo lives when he's not in Boulder. On Friday I went with Dan and 5 other guys over to a town called George, also in this province but a good day's drive away. We ...