Thoughts on Blogging, Working, and Making Money

04 December 2015

I started this blog in June 2010 and named it 2Summers on a whim. I was moving from the United States to South Africa and I would experience two summers in the same year.

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Nine Random Fun Things in Joburg (Featuring Venus)

29 November 2015

November is the best month of the year in Joburg. It’s summer and it’s right before Christmas, so the city is buzzing and tons of cool things are happening before everyone clears out in December. After weeks of exhausting travel, I’m back just in time.

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Golden Hour on Reunion Island

21 November 2015

Reunion Island, or Île de la Réunion, is a tiny French Island in the Indian Ocean. Reunion is best known as a hiking and adventure destination and I’ve already written a couple of posts about those adventures (see here and here).

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What to Do (and Not to Do) During an Eight-Hour Layover in Istanbul

12 November 2015

Two days ago I was sitting in Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, wishing that I weren’t.

Three weeks before that I flew through Istanbul on Turkish Airlines, en route from Johannesburg to Washington D.C. Istanbul is not exactly on the way from Joburg to D.C., and the flight included an eight-hour layover. But the price of the ticket was right ($825, or about R11k), and I thought it would be a great opportunity to briefly visit a city that so many of my friends have raved about.

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I Climbed Some Mountains on Reunion Island

30 October 2015

Maybe this is an overstatement. Theoretically I was hiking, not mountain-climbing. But the pictures speak for themselves.

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This is Dee, balancing herself at the top of one of many mountains that we climbed up and then down again.

When I first received the invitation to participate in the #GoToReunion campaign, I wasn’t sure I could go. I had just booked my trip to the U.S. (where I am now), and it overlapped with the Reunion trip by several days.

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Weird, Wacky, Wonderful Things I Saw While Riding in a Van Around South Africa

07 October 2015

It’s a really long title, I know. It was a really long trip.

I spent ten days riding in a van around South Africa with five blogger/Instagrammers, one videographer, one driver, and one tour guide. We were different genders and ages and races, different nationalities and different personality types.

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