Our plan as we left Lake Itasca was to travel as far as Fargo, North Dakota. What we didn’t think about was that campsites would be scarce on a weekend in July in a city with few campgrounds. Plan B. We called the toll free number for recreation.gov and got a reservation for two nights at a Corps of Engineers campground north of Valley City. We’ve got a grassy site with a view of the lake. Temperatures are hovering around perfect. The night sky is incredible and we are totally enjoying a day of doing nothing!
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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