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		<title>Camping at Shi Shi Beach, WA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caroline, Lee, Jess, and I went camping at Shi Shi Beach last weekend.  It&#8217;s part of Olympic National Park, on the Washington coast, nestled in the midst of the Makah Reservation&#8217;s tribal lands.  It was a beautiful 2+ mile hike through the forest to get to the beach, backpacking in carrying all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great wine, everywhere you turn&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s cape region has terrific wineries everywhere you turn.  I&#8217;m not much of a drinker, but I have thoroughly enjoyed visiting the wineries, enjoying the gorgeous views and beautiful estates, learning the history (some have over 300 years of wine making!), and visiting different vineyards in three of the wine regions.  
Week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday I spent the majority of my day at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, the only gardens in the world to be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  We had perfect blue skies and the &#8220;winter&#8221; weather was about 80F!  I even got a little sunburned after spending the whole morning there!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Gate, amazing gardens, frustrating driving, and other adventures&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another fun week here in Cape Town!  I am a lucky girl to be here, able to work partial days and able to explore daily as well!

Tuesday I visited a wonderful wonderful nonprofit called Beautiful Gate, an orphanage serving primarily HIV positive children.  The staff were wonderfully warm and caring, genuine and fun, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vuvuzela: SA football&#8217;s beautiful noise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we met up for dinner this week with the amazingly generous Nicole, she brought me a gift, despite the fact I&#8217;d invited her to dinner to thank her for hosting me on my last trip to Cape Town!  The gift?  A fabulous SA flag adorned vuvuzela.  It&#8217;s super fun, super loud, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Town&#8217;s new ferris wheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m super excited to see a giant ferris wheel make it&#8217;s way onto Cape Town&#8217;s horizon, less than a mile from our apartment!  The 50m diameter wheel, apparently called the Wheel of Excellence, came to Cape Town from Paris and will be here on a six month contract.  It was up, built, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safari, wine, and World Cup madness!</title>
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Friday I went to the Bo-Kaap and Friday night we rented a movie so David could see Last King of Scotland.
Saturday we did the Robben Island tour of where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison and had lunch at Ocean Basket in the V&#038;A Waterfront.  I had the best three calamari combo ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofit musings&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I visited a nonprofit running afterschool programs here in Cape Town.  I was excited to do a tour but ended up just feeling yucky for even being there.  The man directed me to drive to one school, talked on his cell phone as I drove, arrived and passed me off to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnage count&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian before living in Kenya and David&#8217;s primarily a vegetarian/pescatarian in Seattle.  But Africa, well, it&#8217;s a whole new world.  It it can be killed for food readily available in decent/good restaurants, we&#8217;ve probably eaten it.  Here&#8217;s the current tally&#8230;

Cow

Chicken

Pig

Lamb

Ostrich

Springbok

Kudu

Warthog (I didn&#8217;t even know you could eat warthog)

Fish (snoek, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More adventures in Cape Town!</title>
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Monday I met up with Carol for really good gluten free pizza at Col’Cacchio Pizzeria in Camps Bay.  For dinner, David and I had really bad sushi at Wasabi in Constantia.  Alas&#8230;
Tuesday was Africa Day so we saw a play at the District 6 Museum.  For dinner, we went to the highly [...]]]></description>
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