Well this definitely wasn’t planned, and doesn’t really count as a visit to a presidential site but we discovered this morning that Grover Cleveland lived here in Fayetteville NY during his boyhood. He’s the one who was elected in 1884, defeated by Benjamin Harrison in 1888, elected again in 1892, and turned down an opportunity to run against William McKinley in 1896. We spotted the historical marker as we drove along Route 5. We drove around the block so we could read the plaque then had to drive around the block again in order to see the house! We must have been a sight with our T@B in tow! Next time we’ll check with the Fayetteville Free Library to find out about the local tour of sites important to Cleveland during his boyhood here.
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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