Since shortly after leaving Dixon we’ve been the southern part of the Chicago area along the Historic Lincoln, better known these days as US-30 but in Joliet the US-30 bridge over the Des Plaines River is closed. We detoured onto IL-54 and discovered we were on Historic Route 66! If we’d been taking The Mother Road, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, from LA, we be almost to the eastern terminus which incidentally is at its intersection with US-41. But we have miles to go before we sleep and from here we’ll take the most expeditious route to our destination in Indiana, hopefully Indiana Dunes State Park.
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 shortly after leaving Dixon we’ve been the southern part of the Chicago area along the Historic Lincoln, better known these days as US-30 but in Joliet the US-30 bridge over the Des Plaines River is closed. We detoured onto IL-54 and discovered we were on Historic Route 66! If we’d been taking The Mother Road, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, from LA, we be almost to the eastern terminus which incidentally is at its intersection with US-41. But we have miles to go before we sleep and from here we’ll take the most expeditious route to our destination in Indiana, hopefully Indiana Dunes State Park.
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