Capetown
 January 30, 2004 |
 departing by train from Parow to Capetown for lunch and fieldtrip with Dr. John Rogers |
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 past Goodwood, where my wife Mercia lived in the 1960's |
 arriving at the Capetown train and bus terminal |
 Fakela, Phatiswa and Fajeka, 3 happy vendors two Cape Malays, one Xhosa |
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 View of Table Mountain Portia and Lilianna |
 African Curio Market |
 John and Phil Rogers and the Victoria clocktower at the Waterfront |
 "My" Boland Bank |
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 a fine restaurant with good conversation and a beautiful view |
 Seapoint again! Mercia and I lived here in 1964 |
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 Two geologic "monuments" |
 John is a Geology Professor at the University of CapeTown (kickstarting its 175th anniversary to-day, Mar 11) |
 He and I wore identical Namibian seal fieldshoes and share numerous friends and colleagues |
 contacts of igneous - metamorphic - and sedimentary rocks |
 "Bouma a-b-c sequence" |
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 returning by train from Capetown to Parow after a delicate fieldtrip |
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 . . . through this miles-long cemetery, Steve King! |
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