Coast to coast to coast - a pandemic journey

Coast to coast to coast - a pandemic journey

There’s a way you experience the country when you drive through it that you miss entirely when traveling by air. Not only do you see surprising corners that you’d otherwise never visit, you get to stop and meet people. The unscripted nature of the road trip is intrinsic to the experience. Unexpected diversions result in the formation of new friendships or the discovery of places you never would have known existed. New communities form and dissolve, you gain invitations for return visits.

Hiking the Tugela Gorge in Royal Natal National Park

Here in Washington State we’re under an extended Stay Home, Stay Safe order by the governor. Since we can’t travel, I dug out some archival footage and compiled a video of one of my favorite hikes of the last few years. On my 2017 trip to South Africa I hiked up the Tugela Gorge in the Royal Natal National Park, deep in the Drakensberg Mountains. Here are some highlights of that excursion.