by Richard | Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
This marks the two hundredth post on WhereTheRoadGoes. It’s been a long journey over the last two and a bit years. Sometimes it really is often only on looking back that it becomes clear how truly far we have come. I’d never given the smallest thought to...
by Richard | Oct 20, 2009 | Creative Writing, South Africa, Uncategorized
It’s a warm Sunday, dry from the suggestion of highveld dust on the sleeping air. Mixed in with the breeze, sweetening it, the sound of praises being sung in a nearby suburban park. An innocuous place on any other day, Sunday has transformed it, becoming a...
by Richard | Oct 5, 2009 | Cape to Cairo, Uncategorized
Just a quick welcome to those arriving here from www.travelblogs.com. Covering a few years of travels and related writing, this blog is in the process at the moment of counting down towards departure on a journey from Cape Town to Cairo done entirely on public...
by Richard | Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
52 days left on the countdown until boarding a flight to the Cape. There remains, as ever, a good deal still to be done – but little by little, tasks are being performed and small nuggets of self-satisfaction are being earned. Such as this weekend, for example,...
by Richard | Apr 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sometimes even if you don’t. Yes, I feel more than a little guilty that I haven’t updated these pages in an age – though by all accounts, this does not seem to have stopped the internet beating down the door (albeit modestly) in the last few days to...
by Richard | Oct 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
It was high time that this blog got a new look. Something that tries to say traveler a little more and tourist a little less. And this is the result. There are some more widgets and other bits and pieces that will get added in the coming days, but this is about as...
