Guide

Richard Pace

I gave you a bit of an introduction to me and Southern Sky Adventures on my Home page. While much of that content, some might argue, belongs on this page, I felt motivated to include the content on the Home page as who I am defines what I’m trying to accomplish with Southern Sky.

This business is small and I intend to keep it that way. I like South Africa and I want to keep going. My picture of success has me leading tours to South Africa, not trying to manage a series of people leading tours to South Africa.

Born and raised in eastern North Carolina, during my youth, I was fortunate to have a father willing to send his children and wife to visit maternal grandparents and cousins in Holland each summer. Those trips certainly helped form a stronger bond to my European roots, and in turn, serves as a foundation for an attraction to the Dutch East India Company’s outpost, modern day South Africa. My father’s keen interests in history, biography and geography and deep respect for those who tread before us brought him to educate himself on South Africa through books. That informal education motivated him to pay a personal visit. He was followed by all my three siblings.

Ten years in corporate America with First Union Bank and Coca-Cola proved to be exceptional opportunities for me. Between college summers, for a year after graduation from college, and after leaving corporate America without a job, I followed my own interests. Those interests led me to form Southern Sky Adventures.

with sub-adult "tame" lions	Richard, Rebecca Pace and Mary Adkins in Cape Town	Charles Pace and the van der Werfs	Cape Agulhas lighthouse