 Beautiful Atlanta Airport. |  "No rocket scientists required." Not necessarily good news. |
Beautiful Atlanta Airport. | "No rocket scientists required." Not necessarily good news. |
 |  No whales today. Come back in September. |  |
 |  Ah, fynbos. |  "Armed response." Not that reassuring, really. |
 Maybe that razor wire is there for its magnetic properties. |  The "Big Five" of African game: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, um, turtle? |
 Stimulating scientific exchange. |  But not stimulating enough. |  Wishful thinking, as far as I could tell. |
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 |  "Magnetic observations 1933, 1934, 1935, and 1936." Science the way it used to be. |
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 Just look at all that fynbos. |  "You are now at the southernmost tip of the continent of Africa." So grow up, will you? |  |
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 Shantytowns on the outskirts of Capetown. |  Clouds pouring over Table Mountain. |  The view from my hotel room. Nice, huh? |
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 Nelson Mandela, of course. |  Capetown Museum: documenting the bad old days. |
 The name "Albert" or a variant pops up all over the world. I can't explain it. |  The downside of multiculturalism. |
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 Without flash. Copies available upon request. |  With flash. Which is worse? |
 |  Back in town: a little street entertainment. These guys would do really well in Harvard Square. |