2010 March | The Rathe Family

Palm Sunday in Naples

March 28th, 2010

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Note before going to S. Africa: Make sure you have ONE WHOLE PAGE free in your passport, or you’ll wind up spending an extra day getting pages stapled into it, as we did. But we enjoyed our off-season day in DC–walked around the White House and Washington Monument, and visited the Folk Art Museum and the terrific Phillips Collection, a little museum with wonderful stuff, such as the “Boating Party” and interesting Van Gogh and Impressionist paintings. Saw a traveling exhibit of Georgia O’Keefe’s abstracts and some of Stieglitz’s portraits of her–wonderful stuff, but no pix allowed.

At the White House

Canada Geese

Geese & Monument

Renoir

At Last

18.5 hours

Very long journey to get there, but what a place! Table Mt. forms the backdrop for the city, and the beautiful cape sweeps out below. The cloud bank up top is called–what else?–the table cloth. Doug was speaking at Design Indaba, a fascinating international conference, and we were pampered, to say the least. Lots of great food for thought as well as for tasting. One of the highlights was dinner at a local’s house, in our case an industrial designer and architect couple. Amazing food, a mix of countries and professions, and great conversation. We’re missing our Japanese friends in the photo below…

Table Mt. from Hotel Bar

Up We Go

Cape Town-Robben Island off Coast and New Soccer Stadium Below

Cape Town-Robben Island off Coast and New World Cup Stadium at End of Ridge

Blooming Up Top

Another Bloomer

Conference Interviews

Dinner Party-Partial Group

Winery Farewell Lunch

Martha Was a Speaker, Too

Road on Wildlife Reserve

Yeah, We Were Roughing It...

Saw a Journey of Giraffe

A Crash of Rhinos (7 here)

Lone Rhino Male

Springbok...Tasted Good!

Had a great farewell lunch at a winery and then drove our rental to a wildlife reserve for a VERY short stay (one night and one 4-hour safari)–all we could afford anyway! But we did see animals–hippos, giraffe, rhinos, springbok and other types of “bok.” No white lions or elephants, though….