We’re aboard Amtrak’s The Crescent on it’s daily run from The Big Easy to The Big Apple. We boarded just before 11PM last night in Greenville SC headed to Boston and a few days of hobnobbing with Linus and company. We had a decent night’s sleep considering that we are traveling coach and enjoyed breakfast in the dining car. We’re keeping the Boston folks apprised of our progress with photo messages. It’s the digital age equivalent of postcards from the road!
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.
We’re aboard Amtrak’s The Crescent on it’s daily run from The Big Easy to The Big Apple. We boarded just before 11PM last night in Greenville SC headed to Boston and a few days of hobnobbing with Linus and company. We had a decent night’s sleep considering that we are traveling coach and enjoyed breakfast in the dining car. We’re keeping the Boston folks apprised of our progress with photo messages. It’s the digital age equivalent of postcards from the road!
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