, writing, and creating content. A cortado (or glass of wine, depending on the time!) is rarely out of reach. When South Africa opened its borders to Americans last fall, I decided to plan a bucket-list trip combining its safari regions with Cape Town and the nearby Winelands. As the news developed around the âSouth African variant,â I knew I was going to have a difficult decision to make. Could I still go? Should I still go? Thankfully, I didnât have to rely on doom scrolling aloneâone of my dear friends and colleagues is travel advisor Tiffany Figueredo, who splits her time between Cape Town and Fort Worth.Â