Today we are leaving to go South Africa. As I am currently sitting at the airport during our layover in DC, waiting to board the 17 hour flight to Johannesburg, I am still in disbelief. This is nuts.
How it all happened:
One day Andrew and I were talking about things on our bucket list, and realized that both of us had dreamed of going a safari! I don’t know why we had never mentioned it before, but I guess it was because it just seemed so impossible. About a month later, we randomly saw a deal on a travel website. We contemplated going, but it wasn’t until we saw The Lion King in 3D at theaters that we were like, “OMG WE HAVE TO.” We figured all of this must have been a sign and that we better do it now while we get a chance… so we booked it!! I have been waiting for this day since October. I am thrilled!!!
I love Wikipedia. It is one of my favorite things and I could spend hours on it, like I did today.
I’ve been reading about Cape Town, South Africa in preparation for our next vacation. 37 days!!!!!!!!! I. Am. So. Excited.
Here’s a cool little story about Devil’s Peak:
Devil’s Peak was originally known as Wind-berg or Charles Mountain. The English term Devil’s Peak is a 19th century translation from the Dutch Duiwels Kop, and supposedly comes from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud. The story was captured by the 19th century poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his poem Jan van Hunks (alternatively called The Dutchman’s Wager).
