The Fourth Wave – November 2021
I started penning this blog last week. It was going to be about getting kids outside. I was going to write about the resilience and confidence that nature and wilderness instil in our youth. But alas, I’ve changed the content. I’m writing today about t …
Spring – October 2021
I love Spring. It’s Spring in the southern hemisphere now. The newness, the green shoots, the insects hatching after a long slumber as larvae, colourful flowers, the abundant life, the animals giving birth to youngsters, the warmer temperatures, the ra …
Nature – September 2021
It has been said that everyone should sit in nature for 10 minutes every day, and if you don’t have 10 minutes, you should sit for an hour. I need nature. You need nature. We all need nature. We’re not getting enough of nature nowadays. The ever-wideni …
Mountains – 7 August 2021
I pen this blog from the beautiful Northern Drakensberg, KZN. I’m up here doing some Guide training for The Cavern Resort, and All Out Adventures. It is just magnificent being in the mountains. I love being surrounded by peaks and valleys, I always hav …
The Future of Travel: Six Emerging Trends
In recent months, as we at GeoEx have remained engaged in dialogue with our travellers, a wide spectrum of attitudes towards travel has emerged. On one end of this spectrum is travelers who love travel and yearn to be wandering the wide world again, bu …
The Positive Power of Travel to Rwanda in the Time of Covid
Three years ago, after my second trip to Rwanda, I wrote an article called “A Plane Ride to Inspiration,” because even though I had come to see endangered mountain gorillas, what left me in awe was the resilience of the country’s people, who had surviv …