My Top 10 Road Trip Experiences of 2025
For me (and for many others), 2025 was a strange and sporadically horrible year. I spent much of 2025 feeling anxious and depressed for various reasons, and I blogged less than I have in [...]
Joburg Photos of the Week: Cleanup with the African Reclaimers
On Saturday morning, in the middle of a very heavy rainstorm, 70 members of the African Reclaimers Organization came to Brixton to do a major cleanup with our community. Despite the absolutely terrible weather, [...]
The Melville Art Mile in Pictures
Even though I only live five minutes away from Melville, my former Joburg home of 11 years, I've become pretty out of the loop when it comes to what's happening there. I don't get [...]
Joburg Photo(s) of the Week: A Brixton Mosaic
I couldn't narrow it down to a single photo this week, so here is a series of photos I took of three artists working on a mosaic for our Brixton house. Gavasa and [...]
Coffee and Books in Marshalltown
There's no denying the Jozi CBD has a bad reputation, and that reputation is not totally undeserved. There are many places in downtown Joburg that are somewhere between mildly scary and terrifying to walk [...]
Joburg Photo of the Week: A Diepsloot Street
On and off for the past 18 months, Thorsten and I have been working on an academic/artistic project called the Atlas of Uncertainty, documenting lives and spaces in three different parts of Joburg: Katlehong, [...]
Throwback to Rosendal, a Lesotho Stopover
In April 2025, Thorsten and I spent two nights in the town of Rosendal on our way home from Semonkong, Lesotho. This trip is seriously old news by now, but I'm blogging about it [...]
Joburg Photo of the Week: Portrait of Ayanda
The G20 summit is happening in Joburg this weekend. To be honest, I still don't fully understand what the G20 is or why it matters. But at the very least, it's a big deal [...]
Mammals and Birds of Botswana’s Animal Kingdom
I've already written two posts about my September road trip to Botswana (see here and here). And while those posts are full of tips and information about Botswana and how to get there and [...]
Joburg’s Kente Cloth Weaver
I've known for a while about Steve Appiah, a Ghanaian man living in Joburg who weaves Kente cloth. I originally met Steve at the Bryanston Market, one of the craft markets where he sells [...]
Buying and Renovating a House in Joburg, Part 1
Many of you know this already, but Thorsten and I recently bought a house in Joburg. The house is in Brixton, where we currently live, and we're in the process of renovating the house. We [...]
Botswana on a Budget: Driving to the Okavango Delta
Recently, I told you about my September visit to Planet Baobab in Botswana. But I didn't explain the larger context of our Botswana journey, so let me back up a bit. Many months ago, [...]
