Scrolling through some imagery from a few years ago, while we were living in San Francisco, and I came across one of my favorite places to escape to . . . Manka’s Lodge in Inverness. There is a quite calm that takes over once you head north from San Francisco, almost immediately as your cross the bridge your body and mind just exhale. Inverness is just a couple hours from downtown SF, and Manka’s is a hidden gem in the hills above Tomales Bay. A place one never wants to leave.
My husband, Piet, and I celebrated our third (!) wedding anniversary in South Africa. Well, really is was just before our anniversary but who is counting . . . We began our journey in Cape Town, rented a car and drove out to the wine lands, we stayed in Franschoek for four days then headed East. We crossed into the Eastern Cape, and stay for another few days in the lovely Plettenberg Bay area, and then things got really interesting. We traded in our tiny rental for one with a but more ooompah and drove into the South African Bush. Down a few questionable “roads” later we found ourselves completely secluded and at the gates of our safari adventure. . . Africa is truly amazing, and I see it as one of those places that you just know in your soul that you are meant to return to in the future. There is a wildness about it that cannot be found elsewhere. . .see below for snaps from our trip. . .
I shot with both digital and film, although the below images are digital. . .
