One of the things we have learned this trip is limits of the T@B refrigerator. If we are off grid for only one night we are fine as long as we turn it off overnight. We’re also good running the fridge when using the solar panels for several hours a day and turning off at night. But for multiple days in shady spots it’s just easier to revert to an ice chest. So today we discovered that the market in Myers Flats carries block ice! We haven’t been able to get ice in blocks for decades! We loaded that and all our perishables into our collapsible Kelty cooler. We should be good to go.
Since you are headed north, try to see the Columbia River Gorge. Such beauty and the historical information is so interesting. We drove the gorge and then followed the Oregon Trail. It may be out of your planned road trip but we’ll worth it. Please continue to have a safe journey.
Lynn & Art, you are so right about the Columbia River Gorge, when we were there we promised ourselves we’d return, but on this trip we wanted to linger in the Redwoods and on the Oregon Coast. We plan to come back and tour and hike in the gorge on another trip soon!
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.
Since you are headed north, try to see the Columbia River Gorge. Such beauty and the historical information is so interesting. We drove the gorge and then followed the Oregon Trail. It may be out of your planned road trip but we’ll worth it. Please continue to have a safe journey.
Lynn & Art, you are so right about the Columbia River Gorge, when we were there we promised ourselves we’d return, but on this trip we wanted to linger in the Redwoods and on the Oregon Coast. We plan to come back and tour and hike in the gorge on another trip soon!