Lucinda Tikwart is a South African-born writer based in San Francisco, California.
What started out as note-taking, and a fun way to keep in touch with friends during an extended champagne backpacking trip with her new husband across the ricepaddies, deserted beaches and eclectic cities of Asia, turned into a fully-fledged blog. After much support and urging from her readers, she continued posting her thoughts and revelations on her return home.
Read along as she traces her life across the globe, facing the extraordinary changes of uprooting her life for a new one. No matter how controversial or out-of-the-cardboard-box, they are always through the lens of a curious, and loving first-generation greencard-winner.
In her published award-winning work, she tells the story of lessons travel to corners of the globe teach us about ourselves. And of what you can eat once you get there. Ok, mostly, it’s just about the food.
Lucinda Tikwart’s Bio
Growing up in Cape Town, South Africa, Lucinda Tikwart learnt to get high on seeing all the beauty of the Cape has to offer. As the smallest child in a large, vivacious family, she has fond memories of picking mussels off the rocks for supper on deserted beaches off the Atlantic Ocean, and afternoons eating windswept sandwiches on the rocky cliffs of Table Mountain after a sweaty climb up its face.
Shortly, her world expanded to the rest of Africa, as the family piled into the car on school holidays. Sitting knee-to-knee listening to her parents’ tapings of the story of The Hobbit from the night before, sleeping in forgotten, dusty motels off the freeway and drinking luke warm weak coffee from shared thermos cups, she grew to love being on the road. The trip was always worth it, even if they did get to know each other a little better than they’d hoped, for its memories of surfing Namibia’s desert dunes, lining up next to a 6,000 year old baobab tree, greeting the dawn aboard a baby rhino in Zimbabwe’s Whange National Park, and getting splinters in their palms from the diamond mine barricades in Kimberley.
After a gap year au pairing in Holland and Eurorailing around Europe, she set her sights on a life in California. From her new base, she has managed a journey to Cuba, a honeymoon in Tanzania’s zanzibar island and a champagne backpacking trip through the backroads of Asia with her photographer husband.
