I appreciate your non-urgency of being vulnerable with just trying different things that you give others the best in your life it goes both ways...

@BecomingBev

10 ай бұрын

I think people let fear stop them too often. Saying yes to life attracts more things to say yes to. Thank you for the acknowledgment.

The photos of the trees were phenomenal❤ Thank you for sharing your SA experience.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! It was my pleasure to share.

What a stunning heartfelt video. Thank you so much for sharing

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was my pleasure to share. Thank you for watching.

I have missed you❤ The pink hair looks beauuuutiful🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe, thank you. The pink hair is temporary, it’s already fading. It’s fun to do once in a while.

So awesome Bev. What a great experience ~ thank you for sharing. ❤️

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It’s my pleasure to share. Thanks for being interested.

LOVE the pink hair. What a great vacation! Wow! Thanks for sharing

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. The pink hair is temporary but fun to do occasionally. Thank you for taking the time to watch.

Love your hair, glad you are traveling and enjoying life

@BecomingBev

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Life has so many beautiful possibilities

It looks like a fun trip! Especially the boomsling and suspension bridge. 😀

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

South Africa was amazing

I really enjoyed this one so much. Thanks for checking the things off your bucket list that I am too chicken to attempt.

@BecomingBev

2 күн бұрын

Sometimes I’m a little afraid but I do it anyway.

@zackleewright6885

15 сағат бұрын

@@BecomingBev If you plan on coming to coastal NC let me know. I will prepare a big batch of kindness rocks for you to hide along your way.

I throughly enjoyed the video. Your smile showed how much you enjoyed being able to go and enjoy the beautiful continent... our new travel agent❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe… I’m glad you enjoyed it. I know I sure did. And I am so happy to be your new travel agent. Lol

Hi Bev amazing pictures I loved the gnarly trees and omg I could hear you screaming/laughing across the zip line🤣I’m glad you’re home safe and I love your enthusiasm you radiate positivity I can’t wait to give you a big hug in September enjoy the summer my friend 🥰🤗❤️👍

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You’re sweet. And yes, I’m excited about the meet up.

Love the 🎼 Pat Metheny part of the video soundtrack.❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad. Picking the right music is important

Well done Bev, one of your many fantastic videos, Gavin & Karen from Centurion in South Africa

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I loved S Africa. Thank you Karen and Gavin for sharing your beautiful country with me.

"she's gotta way about her..." smile.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Steve❤️

Bev this video was epic! Such beautiful God created country. You are an amazing live stream blogger. Love the way you bring us with you in your travels. Places I probably will never get to visit. We'll going fulltime in August. I plan to camp at your campground some time with my Jeep. Take care and God bless!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Luz, it was an epic, beautiful, thought provoking trip. I’m having a meet up at FredRock Sept 12,13,14 if your in the area it would be nice to meet you.

Hey Bev, i liked the bird in turquoise. I tried to hear her mating call. I think its " I have two tickets for..." The elephants sure are handsy or is that trunky? Great, now i have monkey envy. Thanks for that. The dogs might be Bouvier. Its good to point out the issues. Well done.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You pay attention

@sblsbl7600

Жыл бұрын

​@@BecomingBevYes Mamm, you hold my attention.

It was good seeing you at Spring Fever, love the videos of South Africa👌

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was so good to be at Spring Fever and to see everyone.

I was there in 2001 with my twin girls who were 13 at the time. Though our main adventure was a solar eclipse safari in Zambia, we spent a few nights in Cape Town with a rental car. Just seeing the townships from the highway was shocking, they were huge. But you're right that the coast and scenery were spectacular. We even saw whales in one of the bays, from the road high above. We went to the same beach with penguins, climbed the same rocks at Cape of Good Hope, and also visited Cape Agulhas at the very southern tip of Africa as you did. It was August, so far too cold to swim with the penguins. The beach at Agulhas had literally tons of seaweed and kelp on it. Some of it was thicker than my thigh, and maybe 50-100 feet long. Which reminds me to answer the captioning challenge. "You can trade the elephant for this, or for what's behind the curtain."

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure this video was a walk down memory lane for you. Awe…. Love the caption. Lol

Hello from North Carolina wow what a wonderful trip you know thank you for taking me along

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming along. So glad you enjoyed it.

What an incredible trip!!! Oh my goshhhhh ❤❤❤❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Truly it was!

Now that's an awesome trip, and you made a video to match it! I believe in magic !

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe. Thank you Mark.

Absolutely amazing and informative! Thank you Bev! ❤

@BecomingBev

10 ай бұрын

It is my pleasure to share.

Hi Bev. it's beautiful. how i laughed with the monkeys. 😂😂

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe… Hi Rose❤️❤️

I so admire your adventurous spirit! 🙂

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

😊 thank you. I do love a good adventure

South Africa here I come. Great travel video Bev!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It’s a magnificent place.

So many wow moments! Thanks for sharing🎉

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You are so right. It was my pleasure to share. Thanks for watching.

Your looking great. Have plenty of fun and safe Beautiful! Love the hair A++

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe. Thank you Carlo

What a trip! Love the hair. I have heard baboons can be aggressive so glad nothing happened. Those elephants are huge. I saw a lady from some place in Africa and the government finally decided to try freedom and capitalism and the country was just flourishing beyond anyone's expectation. Now that you went to the southerner most tip of South America you will have to go to the Northern most point in North America. Thanks for sharing!!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I like the way you think. Lol. Thank you for your kind words and it’s my pleasure to share.

@danrandall794

Жыл бұрын

Just love when people are out there enjoying there lives. We only get one shot.

Hi Bev! Nice to see you back. Looking great at 0:47 😉 I'm glad you didn't get eaten by a penguin! Very nice video.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mike. I like that photo too. I used it for my thumbnail for this video.

@Mike-yg8ig

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev Definitely a good choice of clickbait, I love it lol.

Bev, thank you, thank you, thank you! Such lovely videos and and photos of your adventure. A couple of weeks ago when I was visiting my girlfriend in Surrey, UK (Inline in Houston, TX) we put down a deposit on a SA adventure that will be taking us along much of the same route that you and your girlfriend took. I'm even more excited now than before.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

There is a quote by Richard Mullin.. “The only man (woman) I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa - for he has so much to look forward to. I am so HAPPY for you two. BTW I have a home and business in Pearland, Texas.

@kathrynsink4622

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev I'm on my way to Alaska, but will be back home by the end of August. Hit me up for lunch!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I’m in Missouri for an extended time, but I’d love to meet up.

Looks like you two had a wonderful (educational) time. Yay! 3:00 "Ya see? Ya see!?! That's what happens when you bite the wire with that thing on it!" Just sane... :^) Saint

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Lol. You’re the first one to give it a caption.

Wow Bev. Epic is the word that comes to mind about this video. I doubt I will ever have a chance to personally travel there and certainly not how you did with actually drivibg yourselves. Much, much more brave and adventurous with the driving than I would be. This video was packed to the corners with learning for me. First, I never in a million yrs would think of penguins in Africa. I've always associated them with cold climates that have plenty of snow and ice. Hmm. The little moluscs crawling across the sand was way cool as well. That was very interesting. And ohhhh those trees. If they could only talk.I bet they could tell the best stories ever of what has happened in their life times. I think the first big one was possibly a fig tree or a type of banion tree, but i have to admit I'm guessing. There is a KZreader that has a cool channel from Australia. It's called Max and Occy. He just moved into a cottage in the rainforest there and he has a fig tree that resembled that first one. Anyway, I am an unapologetic tree hugger. Especially funky trees like the one you showed. They just do something cool to me when I sit by them. Like somehow we are communing together like telepathically or more likely energetically we are aligned. 😅 The baboons were funny but I would be leery of them because they can be unpredictable and mean. I loved the seals, and think it would be cool but a bit scary to swim with them and the penguins, mostly because of their place on the food chain with some mammoth predators. The bridge walking, climbing, zip lines and kayaking 🛶 might have been fun in my younger yrs, but I'll happily be an armchair observer vicariously through you. LOL 😂. Sad as it was the housing there wasn't a surprise for me. To me it's equally sad that that kind of abject poverty and homelessness is right here in America and getting worse all the time. It's heartbreaking when the wealtiest people in the worlf could band together and eradicate it everywhere, because it wouldn't even dent there midas stacks because the cost of living isn't as high there. But even here, anyone with 300 million + could eradicate it here as well. At least IMHO it would be a start. As for a caption to your ostrich: "Ladies I know you're furigners but for pete sake, stsy in YOUR lane". Just like I didn'tknow penguins would be in warm climates, I didn't know that ostrich could live in cold climates, so you can imagine my surprise when I lived in Montana over 20 yrs ago, how surprised, no SHOCKED, to see absolutely HUGE ostrich farms out there, and Emu as well. Story goes they are a delicately as well as their eggs, on Asian countries, and so they are grown for their meat, eggs, and of course their feathers that they molt off scads of, since they grow heavy coats of feathers to keep them warm on sub-zero temps. in the winters. And last but not least, the elephants melted my heart ♥ and brought a tear to my eye for how sweetly and tenderly they were hugging you. I can't begin to imagine how you must have felt cautious, yet awed by their strength, knowing they could have picked you up and tossed you over their back like a piece of straw. Yet I can't help but feel those hugely intelligent beasts could feel your love and so were tender and gentle with you. This was an outstanding armchair trek through SA to the tip, and you did such a great job Bev, it almost feelslike I was there with you. Gonna scoot over and watch your safari now. I'm sure it's equally spellbinding. ❤❤❤

@BecomingBev

9 ай бұрын

It truly was eye opening and the trip of a lifetime.

Wow! I’m so impressed that you drove everywhere. I would have been terrified. The roads we were on much of the time in Kenya were scary although our drivers handled the traffic without issue. It felt like 10% of the time we were driving head on to someone! Like you, the safaris were incredible. We did 5 keep safaris and 3 river cruises total in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. I too was struck by the disparity among the people everywhere we were. I took tons of video just driving through the towns and “truck stops.” Interesting enough, in Soweto, South Africa we were told that not everyone who lives in the tin shacks are poor. Many live there basically rent free to send money back home to their families. Our driver also told us that much of the electricity in those shacks was stollen from nearby power poles. I’ll definitely go back! I want to see more of South Africa, including Cape Town and now I need to see those penguins! We were only in Johannesburg and Soweto. What a fun adventure! Thanks for sharing. I don’t think I could make myself walk across those bridges! And no way would I zip line!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

We did end up on some questionable gravel roads. Yikes. Africa truly is the trip of a lifetime.

Awesomeness! Know it was fun fun fun!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was the trip of a lifetime

Thank you for putting this together

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome. It’s such a special way to recreate a memory.

Thankyou for your honesty and truth I was worried about that, I feel its important people know ..

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You’re so welcome. Thank your for watching all the way to the end of the video.

Awesome video! Amazing photography! Great music! Looking forward to more videos. You fell off my feed and I’m really happy I found you again. Peace

@BecomingBev

10 ай бұрын

It truly was the trip of my life!!! I’m so glad you’re back!

@VTLibtard

10 ай бұрын

@@BecomingBev I’m glad you’re back!

Great video. Safe travels.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Karen.

What a wonderful breathtaking Travelog. To be one with nature and close. I wonder how boats see the tiny lighthouse. Light must be Very bright. Is kitesurfing on your bucket list? They say wind surfing is easier. Such amazing picturesque and captivating moments with beautiful memories.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I think I’m content to watch the kite surfing. Lol

This was great!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It was a great trip.

Hi Bev That was beautiful and educational. I seen you changed your hair. It looks good on you. Your beautiful and I love your channel. Can't wait to see more . ❤️❤️

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for always being there on the journey with me and for your kind words.

@mikesrvcamping7012

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev You're very welcome. 😎

Brilliant video👋👋👋👋👋👋👋Looks like a fantastic place to visit

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was! Thank you❤️

Nice to see you back at it 😚

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Neil. Nice to be back at it.

Great video. Thank you for the trip

@BecomingBev

9 ай бұрын

It was my pleasure to share.

Awsome video. Thank you

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

This is totally amazing Bev! What a beautiful place and the animals are awesome! 🌸 Great photography!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe. Thank you. Yes, it was a beautiful place to photograph for sure.

Another great video

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

OMG Bev, you got to be close to wild penguins!!! So darn cute! Glad you had a great travel companion! Ok, the baboons are very cool, but I think I'd be afraid of them. One of them could kill a man fairly easily. "So I'm driving along, and I had to pass an ostrich on the right cuz he was going too slow." 😂 Your stills are fantastic! Wild looking trees! The word boomslang cracks me up, but it's the name of a highly venomous snake. Interesting name for a bridge! Oh, wow, I'd love to hug and elephant! I'm sure I'd cry. They are such majestic creatures! 😂🤣 Buffalo on the bed! Rock rabbits, what?! That's a darn shame about the unemployment rate and the crime. I'm glad you didn't shy away from sharing it!. Great video, Bev, thank you!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching so attentively. It was a magical trip.

@kele1264

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev It's a learning experience for me. I'll never get to go, so the more attention I pay to everything, the more fulfilled I feel. Plus I want you to know how much I appreciate your great photography and the information you give. I often look things up that I've never heard of before. I mean, come on, rock rabbits. I have to read about them! Maybe bed buffalos too! 😂🤣

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Yes. Those bed Buffalo. Lol.

So glad to see your posts again. Can't wait to see more of your African trip.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was spectacular. Thank you for being interested and the first to comment

@MrBowNaxe

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev I loved the elephant hugs!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBowNaxe I know❤️❤️❤️ Their trunks were heavy!! Lol.

It's great

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Hi Bev , thank you for another great video, I hope you are safe and well.🤗

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It was my pleasure to put this one together. Thank you for the well wishes, everything is really good.

@tonymaroni8773

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev That's nice to know Bev, you're looking great too 😍🫂

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Awe. Thank you.

@tonymaroni8773

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev 💝

❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the love. Haven’t heard from you in a while.

i was just thinking about you yesterday, Bev, wondering where you went. Great video. Thanks for sharing all those wonderful views and experiences. I think my favorites were the "Triple-Trunk" and the "Double-Tusker Bev Sandwich." Did you know "Boomslang" is Dutch/Afrikaans for "tree snake?" It's also a venomous species there. I look forward to your return to making US videos.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I did not know that!!! Thank you for enlightening me.

I couldn't find your channel until I googled 'brad pitt pillows,' haha! I used to watch back in the day, but you know how it goes, changed computers lost your channel - and now I see you are in my country (although I've moved to the UK). You are as energetic and gorgeous as ever!🤩😍🥰 I agree it's a shame that the SA government ripped off escome (the power company) and left people without electricity. They also misappropriated funds from the SA airlines and so it goes on. It is a beautiful country but not run well at all.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I agree, it is a shame. Welcome back. I took a little break too. Lol.

❤❤❤❤❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the love.

@Tremaine0f

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Atlanta I always want to go to Africa and visit my people

Hello gorgeous Bev how are you doing been missing you

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for missing me❤️I missed you guys too.

Your heart is wonderful - thank you for sharing with us. I think if this were the only place a person got a chance to visit for their entire life, this would be enough. Sooo beautiful. Thank you for educating us about some of the problems. And finally, baboons freak me the heck out! 😂❤

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Truly the trip of a lifetime. You’re so kind. Hoping to see you at the fall meetups!!!!

@rebekahfrye7934

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev YES! Have those been announced yet? I've been a bit out of the loop - reasons to be explained in person.

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

@@rebekahfrye7934 yes mine is Sept 12-14 Jonnie’s is right after.

@rebekahfrye7934

Жыл бұрын

@@BecomingBev Wonderful!!! On my calendar. Count me in!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

@@rebekahfrye7934 yay!!!!

I have been very fortunate to have traveled to many different parts of the world, but it has always been my dream to go to SA. However, due to just the reasons you stated about the racial disparity and discrimination, I have never traveled to SA and I don't think things will change before I die. I'm 55 now. I've been waiting since my early 20s. It sure looks beautiful, though. Reminds me a bit of Australia, a bit of coastal California, and a bit of Hawai'i. I live in the SF bay area and Burning Man is huge here among creatives and tech people, but the rampant drug use and sex parties are not my thing, so I'm not a burner. The last 10 years or so, the cost of the tickets to get in have skyrocketed from what people have told me. Hopefully your experience with the festival there was less capitalistic and debaucherous? lol The poverty you mentioned and showed, quite honestly, this level of poverty has been around in California (and other cities around the world) for decades, and it has only gotten worse and worse and worse. There has never been a time since I've lived here ('97) that the homeless population has decreased, and most of our homeless citizens live in shelters that you would find on par with Haiti, because they won't even allow them to cobble together wooden structures. Only when the pandemic happened did you see cities providing port-a-potties for them to use. Most have no running water and no electricity, and when it rains, the tents that the city gives them become flooded (and any personal items have to be thrown out due to mold). Bev, it's gotten so bad in the US that I see we are moving more toward the malignant narcissism prevalent in South Africa rather than SA becoming less narcissistic and more like the US use to be in the 70s. Honestly, what I see in SA in heartbreaking, but worse still, what I see in the US has just become demoralizing. I was just down in LA last week, and the number of elderly spending their entire days in the libraries there is just gut-wrenching. I lived there for 10 years and I've never seen it this bad before. Even Tokyo had problems with homelessness, but after so much public posting on social media, Tokyo felt shamed into giving many of the housing instead of having their elderly live in tents cities. It looks like you really had the trip of a lifetime. I'm sure you were so sorry it was ending and you had to return. Thank you for sharing your trip online for others to enjoy!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I just returned from a quick 3 day trip to Los Angeles. I was shocked at the number of homeless people there. It’s heart breaking. You’d think that as humans we’d be farther along than that. We have some work to do. Sending you love and a thank you for your heartfelt comments.

I like the clore of your haire

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. The pink is almost all washed out now.

@aminemaravalo31

Жыл бұрын

Its looking nice on you you still younger girl ❤❤❤❤‍🔥💗❤‍🔥

I am unable to determine where the video caster ends and the utube employee or an algorithm begins in regards to comments.but i still analyze and make determinations .

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what you mean, but I answer my comments

Extraordinary experiences❣️ I saw so much complete poverty when I on a mission trip to Ethiopia, it was heartbreaking. 💔 I was amazed that everyone almost always had big smiles on their faces. 😊

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It is heartbreaking.

@ronaldmatovu

Жыл бұрын

your rich home country started from scratch... probably hundreds of years ago. how do you expect a young nation like Ethiopia to spur swift growth within a few years ?!! you ought to know that you are a beneficiary of the merciless loot and plunder of African resources by your ancestors.

Holy moly, I just saw this pop up and I love your hair! Those penguins look so beautiful and then the random babboons, dear God, how amazing! Looks like you had a great time. 👍❤️

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

It truly was the trip of a lifetime. Thank you for your kindness.

Great Stuff Bev I trust you are doing well......cool hair btw hehehe.....again Thanks for making me homesick lol......but also thanks for highlighting the good and the bad.....The good being the wildlife and the natural beauty of the country.....the bad being the politics and how a government can mess up a good country and treat the people like rubbish....Keep up the great work 👍👏☺

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

You know this well. Always good to hear from you. Hope you’re happy and doing well. Thailand is beautiful too.

Where is part one? It's a joke🙄

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

I bet you can figure it out. Hahahahaha

No one needs to be swimming with wildlife .. sigh..

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

Yet, every time we step into an ocean, river or lake we do.

@jimmymay2992

Жыл бұрын

Bev, you are amazing. Pay no attention to foolish negative comments!

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmymay2992 I get what they meant though.

I'm gonna not try to seem so thirsty but I'm smitten...

@BecomingBev

Жыл бұрын

❤️