This Is It

Apologies for the not posting when I said I would post.

Well, this is it.  My final post.  I will talk about my trip to Cape Town, South Africa and the flight back to the United States (where I am now).

I had a lot of expectations for Cape Town.  People said "Its great, you'll love it!"  Now I have realized that the people how had said that had never lived in the United States.  None of my expectations lived up to Cape Town.  Sure, its the most Europe like place in Africa, but its still not great.  The only thing  that really impressed my was Table Mountain.  It is now one of the New 7 Natural Wonder Of The World (keep in mind, the word "New" is in there.  Somebody decided to recreate it).  You can either hike up or take the cable car.  We took the cable car.  At the top, the view was astounding.  You could see all of Cape Town, the bay, and the harbour on the south side.  It is also very windy up there.  After staying up there for about an hour, we went back down.

The next day we drove down to Cape l'Agulas.  Cape l'Agulas is the southern most point in Africa.  Basically that is the only point on the world where you can pick up a rock in the Indian Ocean and through it into the Atlantic ocean in under a min.  After that we saw the South African Penguins.  Yes there are penguins in South Africa.  They are fairly close to Cape Town, on Boulder Beach.  It's called Boulder Beach because of all the boulders that are on the beach.

We tried to go to Roben's Island (the prison where the late Nelson Mandela spent 30 years of his life for protesting the government) but the first day it was too windy, and on the second day it was delayed and we didn't want to miss our flight.  I will not go into the death of Nelson Mandela for political and social reasons.

The rest of the trip was mostly spent at Water Front, the shopping area on, well, the water front; and a various other places around Cape Town.  Cape Town is the only place in Africa I would probably live for more than 2 years.

Later in the day we had to head back to the airport to catch our flight back to Gaborone.  We we got there, it turns out it got delayed.  So we would have been able to make it to Roben's Island if we wanted to.

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The second thing I want to talk about is my leaving.  I have now officially left Botswana and now in the United States.  I will be moving back into North Carolina within a week or so (right now I'm currently at my grandfathers in Plainwell, Michigan).

The pictures for this post will be up when I get my camera back.  It got packed up by the movers when they were packing our house.

The blog will continue to stay open for and undetermined amount of time.  I will let you know if and when I decide on a date.

I want to thank everybody who read the blog.  Sorry the post weren't more annual and (many) of the pictures weren't posted.

So this is it.


Cheers!
Matthew Handley