We left Flagstaff and traveled I-40 along a stretch that was more or less the path of the old Route 66. We got off the highway to visit the Petrified Forest National Park. Wow! It was awesome being in the presence of beautiful rocks that were trees 255 million years ago. The northern portion of the park includes the incredible Painted Desert. Then on through Gallup and Albuquerque and north to Santa Fe where we met brother-in-law, Bill, for dinner and a beer at Brumby’s, an Aussie pub, and spent a very comfortable night as his house guests.
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.
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