The good, the bad and the ugly

South Africa is hard to characterize. There is enormous wealth and quaint little villages. Kind of the places you would like to see on vacation or maybe might want to live. This was actually the only place where we felt safe stepping off of the train: Worcester in the wine country.

Just about everywhere you look, things are surrounded by this stuff; (razor wire, spike topped fences). I mean for hundreds of miles, everything, houses, schools, train stations. Looking at it from our tourist bubble, I can't help wondering if it is keeping them in or us out. I guess it amounts to the same thing.

This is a bit extreme, but not untypical... This is the train station in one small village on the route from Jo'berg to Cape Town. Diane says that South Africa is an odd mix of first and third worlds.

We are currently tucked away in the Garden district in Cape Town. While not 100% comfortable we walked to dinner in our little corner of the city. And obviously made it back... More pictures tomorrow.