Goin' for Broke in Africa

Greetings from the great, massive land of Africa! We're currently in Cape Town, and I'm busy catching up on some blog posts from an ultra-chic cafe on Kloof St. The area here and much of Cape Town is predominantly white, a remnant from apartheid (which only ended with the start of the '90s I might remind you). It's strange to be here, the city feels wealthy and European almost, not what I expected of Africa. The coastal areas are really nice as well, almost a copy of Marin in the Bay Area.

We've explored the coast and made it down to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope and back. Tomorrow we're heading out for about a week into the eastern part of the Western Cape. Of course, that's not before we have a chance to do some wine tasting! We haven't yet made it to the top of Table Mountain, which dominates the city here, because of the weather. It's been quite San Francisco like, in fact... Cool but not cold and cloudy in the mornings.

We came into town through Jo'burg, and there wasn't too much going on there other than malls. Houses are built like fortresses, but I didn't at any point feel threatened. That's likely because we spent so much time in said malls. The Apartheid Museum was a very moving experience. The Steve Biko temporary exhibition was great as well. It was all just too much to move through in the 3 hours that we had to explore it.

Well, the clouds are breaking, off to Table Mountain!