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Our first full day in South Africa began at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. The building itself is modest, and parts were under renovation, but the exhibition we had come to see—on San rock art—was open and well worth the visit. The show addresses some of the most basic but complex questions surrounding rock art: Who made it? How old is it? How was it created? And, perhaps most importantly, what does it mean? One of the key ideas running through the exhibition is

I'm almost ready! Tomorrow I depart for South Africa for the first time. It's a strange feeling because I've been thinking about this trip for so long that it has started to feel almost like a fever dream. For months I've been researching museums, booking workshops, comparing safari lodges, studying maps, and revising itineraries. What began as a bucket-list idea and a grant proposal slowly became a stack of reservations, confirmations, and spreadsheets. Now, somehow, it's r