Early Wednesday morning after a wonderful weekend with family, we packed up and stowed all our luggage and treasures in the bed of Eric the Red and headed north to Tween Creeks. We and Lou and Bill have traveled together before. Our first road trip together was Arlington, Texas to St Petersburg, Florida back in The Spring of 1977. That time we had to make frequent stops to stretch our legs because Karen was pregnant. This time we made frequent stops to stretch our legs and search for geocaches. One of the searches took us into historic downtown Micanopy. Two of us have traveled this stretch of I-75 countless times over the last few decades and this is the first time we have actually visited this wonderful Old Florida town. We paused for coffee and wonderful pastries at Mosswood Farms Cafe. We can already feel it calling us back again.
Enjoying a Florida sunriseSearching for a geocacheDiscovering treasures inside a cacheA well timed repast in a delightful old Florida setting
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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