In the next couple of months I will be doing a bit of wandering.

Late next week I will be taking off to head across the Pacific to Shanghai. Of course I have a lot of work to do on the trip.

However, I am also looking forward to some good food.

Especially some noodles at one of my favorite noodle shops. See: Xian Noodles

I will only be in China for a week and then it will be back home for just two weeks before traveling again.

The next trip will take me much further away than Shanghai. I will be flying east across the Atlantic to Zurich, Switzerland and then south to Johannesburg, South Africa. It will take more than 20 hours of flying to get there.

I have not been to South Africa for almost 17 years, so am looking forward to the trip.

Unfortunately, I don’t have very many good pictures from that trip. This was one of the last trips I took where I took a film camera with me. When I got back home I found out that the camera aperture was not fully closing and all the film was overexposed. Luckily I did have an early digital camera with me and do have some pictures.

I remember taking this picture. This was from an interesting native dance performance in Johannesburg.

The journey home from South Africa back in September 2001 was one that I will never forget. See Remembering September 11 to read about my long journey home.

For many years I have had blocked many memories from the trip, but some of the good memories came flooding back today as I started making travel plans.

Of course, one of those memories is my first taste of Nando’s Chicken.

Other memories are of some of the great people that I know around the world who are from South Africa.

I will fly over 30,000 miles and spend more than 60 hours in the air between the two trips. I will also be on four continents in the same month. I am trying to think if I have achieved this before 🙂 I know that I have been on three continents in a month many times.

Now for some rest before all the wandering.

Steven