the cabin

Standing alone in a tangle of unnamed dirt roads, surrounded by only mountains and orchards, I paused for a moment to gather my thoughts. My phone? Dead. Signal? None. I was definitely lost. And yet somehow in the magnificent vastness of the Klein Karoo landscape, my resolve and spirit of adventure seemed revived. I approached a group of women washing fruit at a nearby farm to ask for directions. They pointed to a distant pole with a red ribbon tied around it and waved me on as I retraced my