Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • Dining with The Rich and Famous

    Yesterday our clients invited me to a meal to a) celebrate the release of our project and b) say farewell to John Hull, one of the key people on the project. The restaurant was the Refuel Bar in Soho and is one of the poshest restaurants I’ve ever been in. The food was very good…

  • Florida 2006: The 1st annual Potgooi conference

    We returned from the inaugural annual Potgooi (Afrikaans Podcast) conference on Sunday. The ôconferenceö bit is sort of true, but really it was a side product of our trip to Florida. The primary reason for the trip was to finally meet (and stay with!) with some friends we met online through the blogging and Afrikaans…

  • Die Ertjie op wit en swart!

    Wel hier is hy nou op Wit en Swart vir die 1ste keer. Vir die van julle wat nog nie weet nie – ek en Lené is verwagtend. Of eerder Lené is nou tussen 11 en 12 weke verwagtend. Voorlopig weet ons nog nie of dit ‘n outjie of ‘n vroutjie is nie so ons…

  • Kalahari Gemsbok Park

    As promised, here is the link to my Kalahari Gemsbok Park photos. The Kalahari desert is part of the huge sand basin that reaches from the Orange River up to Angola, in the west to Namibia and in the east to Zimbabwe. The sand masses were created by the erosion of soft stone formations. The…

  • My Frappr page

    I don’t really get Frappr yet, but here is my Frappr page anyway. Please join (I think?) if you want to.

  • I’m back

    Well I’m finally back in the UK after a month of R&R in South-Africa. It always takes a bit of getting used to, but this year seems more difficult than ever. The quality of life in SA is just so much higher than in the UK. Why are we still in this country?!? I’m just…

  • SA, here we come!!

    Well it is the time of the year again where we leave everyting on The Island (UK) to go and galavant in the sun in South-Africa. We’re flying out today at 8pm and we’ll be in Port Elizabeth tomorrow at about 1pm. Whooohooo!! I’ll be back in London on the 22nd of January. I will…

  • My home town (on Google Earth)

    Thanks to Google Earth I can show you where I grew up and my parents still live. Click on the image and it will open the full sized version.You’ll see two rivers in the centre of the picture. Bushman’s River Mouth is the village to the left (West) of the Bushman’s River (the more Western…

  • Things that go bump in the night

    This morning at 6am while fast asleep I heard our doors rattling. I immediately assumed that someone had entered or was trying to enter our house. I jumped up and while running grabbed my old tripod (as good as a baseball bat any day) ready to kick the living shit out of whoever it was that was stealing my…

  • Heunis opvolg: die 1ste Heunis in Suid-Afrika

    Ek het ontdek dat die eerste Heunis in Suid Afrika was Hermanus Heunis. Hermanus Heunis was gebore op die 19de 1798 in Leiden, Nederland. Hy’t Suid-Afrika toe geimmigreer in 1798 (toe hy 30 jaar oud was). Dit beteken dat ons lot nou al 207 jaar lank in Suid-Afrika is. Hermanus het sommer in sy eerste…