After a wonderful summer in La Honda, the trip planned to Africa with Alan Burr has begun. We flew to London, then to Johannesburg arriving a day before our Intrepid Tour: Experience Southern Africa began.

This first batch is in the sky and on the ground. A good guy named Lebo drove us from the Joburg airport to the Holiday Inn in Rosebank, a rather upscale neighborhood. Sunrise from the room…

After an attempt to recover from long flights and hardcore jetlag, we went first to the Apartheid Museum (via Uber, which worked great). A uniquely designed building with a large wrap around entrance, here’s the considerable approach. Inside, photography was not allowed, so this is most of that…

In spite of the restrictions on takin’ pix, I snapped a few, and then there was the nice café where we took a spot of lunch. The museum had a lot of interpretive signage in not a discernable order with a lot of emphasis on Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and a few other ANC leaders…

After the Apartheid Museum, we Ubered to the Museum Africa in a sketchy section of downtown Joburg. The building is vast and cool, but obviously not a priority for the government. We were practically the only ones there – and it was free! Amazingly, it covered all kinds of topics: history, politics, art, anthropology, geology, photography, etc. It was great, but sadly neglected and rather unkempt. The opportunity to reorganize and revitalize is huge. Makes one think of the art of curation…

In addition to lots of cool stuff, what I really loved about Museum Africa was the absolute randomness. Take your time, stop making sense, stay curious…

Outside the Museum Africa, and the Nelson Mandela bridge. That was plenty for our first day, but we still had to meet the group back at the hotel. Bright and early the next morning (a theme so far), we headed out to Kruger National Park in an awesome truck/bus…

Get on the bus…