Karen has always known that she was born and baptized in Columbus but the family moved shortly afterwards and never even returned for a visit. With a bit of sleuthing she found the house address. Dad confirmed that he and Mother rented a second floor bedroom and a private kitchen in the basement both on the west (right) side of the house as newlyweds for Dad’s final year of study at OSU. Shortly after Karen’s birth they moved to a neighborhood nearer Model Dairy where Dad was a manager. Not long after that a new job prompted a move first to Louisville then beyond. More than twenty years later Dad again worked for a while in Columbus but the family never again lived 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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