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Before this trip, Yosemite was probably the part I was LEAST excited for. See, I’m from Paarl, where we have all of the natural splendour you can imagine, all over the place. Granite dome-shaped mountain? Yes. River? Yes. We even have wineries! Bonus. Boy, was I wrong! One thing you probably won’t get from my husband’s fantastic (I know, right?) video skills, is that it was…
Yesterday I put my very shaky (especially after 10yrs in TV) camera technique to work, to bring you this video diary. A look into a day on set for me on First XV. No, you don’t get to see me sitting in front of my computer at home in my robe and slippers, prepping for the show before I go to studio. Because: boring. You also don’t…
Initially Mammoth Lakes was meant to be a quick stopover, just a motel room on our way from Death Valley to Yosemite. It’s only home to about 8 000 people and outside of ski-season (which is the activity it’s famous for) there isn’t much going on. That is, until I read that this area is also geologically active. So despite it being a pretty cold place, warm water…
We flew into Las Vegas, saw the Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon as part of our descent into town, picked up our Jeep (later for #jetlag!) and headed straight for the wide open spaces of Death Valley. Yes, Vegas was on the to-do list, but I’ll have to tell you more about that in a later post. After spending many, many hours in airports,…
