Hey all, back from my trip! Just wanted to share a bit. All these photos are from my phone. I took over 15k photos with my DSLR, but I haven't started actually looking at them. If I end up with 150+ that come out I'll be happy. Going to take a long time to go through them though. I may update the thread with some of my favorites later.
Anyway, the trip started where? In the TSA security line of course. I went through the TSA pre-check, but they were confused about whether my herfador needed an extra review. While waiting, I took a pic of the well dressed case in question (love that CG sticker). The feet are just a lucky coinceidence.
After a 16 hour flight, we were counting the seconds to landing...
After sleeping at a nearby hotel for 6 hours, we were back at the airport for a flight to Cape Town.
Luckily South Africa has a super s**tty chain of burger restaraunts at every airport and gas station in the country. Breakfast while waiting for our flight sucked. If ever here, avoid...
Drove to Knysna where we rented a house for 3 nights while we explored the area. Fantastic views, the house was located on a cliff top with a view of the Heads inlet. Beautiful area, will try to upload pics of the house (real estate is cheap as hell here, and renting vaction homes is cheaper than hotel rooms). Had my first cigar here (thanks Ntxsage!)...
Something wrong about this place...
Had one more cigar here, think it was a Casa Fuente. Here's a sexy shot, since I know the board loves feet!
Drove back to Cape Town for 2 nights to explore the area...
Some absolutely stunning beach towns. Smoked my next couple of cigars with an ocean view as well...
Thanks to StogieDad for this one!
Next we flew back to Joburg and then drove up to a private reserve near Bella Bella called Mabalingwe. Had a blast here, and absolutely would stay again. Here's a shot of our cabin...
Was playing with HDR using my phone to automate over/under exposures on my DSLR. Here's a shot of the back deck where I enjoyed many fines cigars from several geeks...
Thank you TheBurnWard!
Thank you pyro92!
Thank you kxthor911!
Thank you nwb!
Dinner decided to stop by and say hello...
Here she is after cooking...
OK, so maybe that was a different kudu.
The food here though was fantastic. They take they're grilling out to a whole different level here. Mostly wood fired cooking, so everything is slow. Almost every night we spent two hours by the fire drinking, smoking, and chatting while the coals got even enough to cook on. They have these awesome bacon twisters, which are basicly just massive strips of bacon, braided and then marinated in fruit and sugars. The apple one tasted like a bacon apple danish. Sounds weird, but was amazing...
After Mabalingwe, we drove into a little town called Hazyview right neat the Phabeni Gate to Kruger National Park. Spent a week here, every day inside the park.
Thank you kxthor911!
And a few pics of some of the other smokes I brought with me and enjoyed. First time smoking cigars outside the US for me.
Probably my favorite cigar pic...
And the very last cigars my son and I smoked before driving back to Joburg for our flight home...
Thanks again to this board and all the geeks firebombing each other! Was very cool to be in a foreign country, just relaxing with family and smoking cigars from some very cool people here.