A little more detail on our plans

Thought I'd chime in with a post since Adam is getting so busy on here.  We basically have 4 parts to our trip, which I'll detail below.  But in case you haven't figured out, I'm William Jordan, I just graduated from Furman University in Greenville, SC, USA, and I'm heading to the 2010 World Cup with two mates from Australia, Paul Davies and Adam Simcoe, who both live and study at university in Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.  Adam and I met in 2008 on a study abroad trip in South Africa, and we've been planning this trip virtually ever since.  Here's how it's gonna go down:

• Phase 1 - Cape Town
• We're staying in Cape Town for about a week when we first get to South Africa, first with friends Tim & Xanthe and then with another friend Drew.  After that, we start our hostel adventure at Carnival Court.
• Phase 2 - Games 
• We have 8 World Cup games, and we'll be travelling from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, then on to Durban, driving to Bloemfontein and then into Johannesburg where we have games at Soccer City and Rustenburg.  Here's our full list of games(all times South African):
• Game 2 - Uruguay v. France - 20:30 on  June 11 - Cape Town
• Game 4 - Korea v. Greece - 13:30 on June 12 - Port Elizabeth
• Game 13 - Ivory Coast v. Portugal on June 15 - 16:00 - Port Elizabeth
• Game 16 - Spain v. Switzerland on June 16 - 16:00 - Durban
• Game 27 - Slovakia v. Paraguay - 13:30 on June 20 - Bloemfontein
• Game 33 - Mexico v. Uruguay - 16:00 on June 22 - Rustenburg
• Game 39 - Ghana v. Germany - 20:30 on June 23 - Soccer City
• Game 50 - 1C v. 2D - 20:30 on June 26 - Rustenburg
• We will also be in Joburg for the day of the final, although I doubt we'll have tickets
• Phase 3 - Grahamstown
• Adam and I studied for 5 months at Rhodes University in Grahamstown during the latter half of 2008, so we'll be staying there for ten days during the first part of July.  We'll be watching the crucial knockout round games down at the Rat & Parrot and hitting up all our old hangouts while meeting up with some old friends.  The Grahamstown Arts Festival is also during this time.
• Phase 4 - Additional Travel
• We have two weeks at the end of the trip where we will do some further travelling around the southern part of Africa.  Right now we're leaning towards Zambia and Livingstone, but we may also end up in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana or somewhere else in South Africa.  We'll let you know when we know.

That's pretty much our whole trip, 54 days, from June 3rd to July 25th.  I leave tomorrow, about 30 hours of hell travelling before I get to the Wacky Wine Weekend.  Really looking forward to it.

A few notes about this blog.  Hopefully we'll be able to post a few times a week, although internet access will be spotty in some areas, but we're gonna try.  I'm already off to a better start than last time.  We probably also won't be able to post a lot of pictures (although I promise some), but we will be taking them, so look forward to many, many pictures and maybe some video once we return.

Love,
Will