The document summarizes the author's first travelogue from South Africa in October 2016. Some key details include: - The author arrived in Port Elizabeth exhausted after a long flight from London with delays and missed connections. - Universities in South Africa were in lockdown due to protests by radicals demanding free university education. This caused the cancellation of some of the author's meetings. - The author explored historical sites in Port Elizabeth and was staying at a nice and safe guest house, but university activities were limited due to the ongoing protests and lockdowns.

1. First Travelogue from South Africa, October 19 2016
Just arrived in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
I never slept on any flights so arrived here exhausted. The flight from London to Johannesburg
was on time but visa control was so slow everyone missed connecting flights. No one around
from British Air so they had us walking thru various terminals. I finally got booked on a 6 PM
flight to Port Elizabeth and standby on the 3:45 - - only one who got on! So university people
were worried since I wasn't on earlier plane and internet was out at Joburg airport until 3 PM.
I slept 12 hours and felt okay until late day when my little computer died - - apparently another
motherboard failure. The university worked with me to get one of their laptops going but I am
running off my computer at Elizabeth's house via LogMeIn software. Couldn't get thru to E until
Saturday afternoon so I was missing for three days! A Portuguese wind engineer here at guest
house was able to send her an email for me saying I was safe.
The universities are in lockdown essentially so no one is working and here there are 20,000
students being held off campus by 100 or 200 radicals. Most of the news is from Wits U in
Jo'burg where ringleaders have been arrested, buildings burned and the leader was not given
bail today so students are rioting. Here, the main campuses (north and south) had
demonstrations and a threat to spread to Business School and admin - - so closed down today.
I was at B school campus Monday and Tuesday - - supposed to meet with acting Dean of
Business School today and lunch with Innovation head who is apparently very nervous since he
has just gone into the job - - cancelled of course. Yesterday I had lunch with head of
entrepreneur program undergraduate and will meet with her and her colleagues Friday morning
at coffee shop on water - - no one going near campuses. She is very discouraged about
students and how they are performing - - not a hand picked group as I had in VN. We'll see
what I am able to do here, but I doubt it will be teaching a course.
Everyone very nice, being careful to make sure I am in the loop and not wandering around in
danger. The dept heads are in constant meetings trying to see how they can finish the
semester for all these students. Students have paid tuition and can't study. NO support for
radical movement (they want free university for all) among population or students who are wait-
staffing to earn money.
Today I worked in the morning and then took my rental car down into the historic section and
walked thru Fort Frederick and the historical museum. On a lovely hill overlooking the harbor
with a beautiful sea view. Early dinner so I am in for the night. Keeping early hours here and
out of trouble.
Depending on what happens tomorrow (it's hour by hour) I might head to the Mandela Art
Museum downtown and maybe the main crafts market downtown. Possibly the Cape Recife
bird sanctuary.in the next couple of days. Port Elizabeth is safest port in SA, center of car
industry here, so you see big cranes and container ships in port.
I am practicing driving slowly and since students aren't in class the van taxis are sparse, making
driving easier. All on left, steering wheel on right and turn/lights/windshield wipers are all
reversed - - opposite sides of steering wheel and all backwards from what we do. To turn left I
keep turning on the windshield wipers.

2. My guest house is nice, about 15 rooms and owners are considerate. Clean, comfortable and
safe. My car is in a locked yard, they have 2 dogs and a friendly cat. "African" workers, as they
call them on TV, are friendly, considerate and immaculate.
I have to see if I get up really early - - will they run Trump vs Hillary on Al Jazeera?
It's almost 8 PM and I am sitting on patio by the pool. Time to go inside. Cool - - no swimming
yet - - glad I brought some layers.