In 2008 I joined eight other American bloggers on a tour of South Africa organized by International Marketing Council, a government agency responsible for “promoting South Africa as a destination for investment and travel and as a source of innovation and high quality goods and services.” The trip was organized by Simon Barber and led by Graeme Addison. My blog posts from the trip are here. I was joined by Nic Haralambous, Renee Blodgett, Zadi Diaz, Mona Gable, John Gartner, Chris Morrison, Graeme Wood, and Eliane Fioret. There is a photo pool on Flickr of all of our photos.