On June 22, 2008 I left Arizona to join my good buddy Pants on an African odyssey (not a safari as some think. We spent only one boat ride and one truck ride in Botswana actively looking for wild life. More than that and I would have been wild, to escape.) I call it an odyssey because it took me nearly 48 hours to arrive in Cape Town, South, Africa. It started with my flight to New York getting cancelled. I scrambled, got rerouted through Vegas, leaving 8 hours earlier than planned. I packed in a rush (just like a recurring dream), forgetting a bunch of things. Like decent binoculars.

No matter. It was worth it despite the cankles. In case you've never spent 17 hours on a plane, that's what happens not matter how much seat yoga you try.

I took a lot of pictures on my Casio Exilim EX-Z9PK. The PK stand for pink. It's very cute and also takes excellent pictures and videos. There was so much to capture and I'm not the best photographer. So here are the videos I took. Thank you, YouTube!

The rest of the pictures are listed down the side over there.

Videos

The Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

African Penguins, Simons Town, South Africa

The sheer cuteness of African Penguins. Pants tried to take one home in her purse.

Marcos African

Our last night in Cape Town we went to dinner at Marcos African. I hear it's what a BOMA dinner is like, with the eating and singing and dancing. I'm still kicking myself for not buying the band's CD. The food was so good, too. I had springbok, which has the consistency of a pork chop. It was covered in a delicious mushroom sauce. Afterward we were chatting with our server, a nice young woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She brought over Marco who is not just the owner but also a chef. He's a big, Marsellus Wallace dude who brought us another Springbok, this time in the form of a shot with Amarula. Also tasty.

The Stanley & Livingstone, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Walking with Lions

Chobe River, Mowana Lodge, Kasane, Botswana

The last night in Botswana, Pants and I got hammered (we each had a whopping two drinks) on the veranda at the Mowana. We watched the sunset over the Chobe River. It looked like a green screen it was so pretty.