[ESCAPESEEKER and the Advance Research Team comprised of Jim Jones, Peg Whisler Jones, Carol Borghi, and Phil West of Royal African Safaris join the Lion Sands Private Game Reserve guides for an exceptional day of wildlife tracking!]
SOUTHERN AFRICA — Who would ever venture to guess that this once-upon-a-time Philippine born, American raised little girl from a small seaside town in Southern California, would be leading an amazingly bright professional Advance Research Team throughout the southern region of Africa to uncover its best kept wondrous secrets for her own popular PBS SoCal Travel Series, ESCAPESEEKER, Season 2012.
Yes, seasoned journalist, Mel Gee Henderson is the ESCAPESEEKER, a nickname she derived while working for Asia’s premiere high-end global luxury magazine, ESCAPE. Mel’s fascinating cover stories became the impetus which led her to create the inspiring PBS travel series that bears her nickname, ESCAPESEEKER! She’ll be the first to tell you, her insatiable wanderlust knows no bounds, as she travels, often to the most remote corners of the earth with her talented, indefatigable film team seeking out the greatest destinations in the world, one LUXURY ESCAPE at a time.
To say Mel’s passion for travel is highly contagious is an understatement. Wherever she goes, whomever she meets in every walk of life, it doesn’t take long before Mel has entire groups intoxicated with her inspiring travel stories, combined with images and footage of the most dramatically jaw-dropping beautiful places on earth!
[ESCAPESEEKER with photographer, Ozzie Jack Clarke getting a birds eye view of Cape Town from the world famous Table Top Mountain. Thank you Jim Jones for capturing this breathtaking moment!]
As Mel explains, “My assignment as writer and journalist host is to deliver 27 minutes of pure joy every week—and you know what—you can’t fake ‘pure joy’—so thankfully, our program succeeds because overwhelming JOY is exactly what my team and I feel time and time again, as we are given this incredible opportunity to capture the very best ‘pinch me moments’ our world has to offer!” Mel adds, “We keep it honest, we keep it real. I want my travel-loving, loyal audience to know that anything I can do, they can do. It is not always easy to reach the destinations we select to feature on ESCAPESEEKER—but I’ll guarantee that they will always be unforgettable and sometimes even life-changing.”
- DOUBLE RAINBOWS further illuminating the stunning beauty and thunderous impact of VICTORIA FALLS–one of the SEVEN WONDERS of the WORLD!
Since January 8, 2012, Mel and her Advance Research Team aka ART have been criss-crossing the magnificent, diverse expanse of the southern region of Africa and today Mel reports from the remote Okavango Delta of Botswana. This area is known as the “predator capital of Africa” and is also home to large herds of elephant and buffalo, making it one of the most ideal places to experience the epic African wildlife for which this continent is world-renowned.