A couple things have heightened our interest recently in the 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens. His 2011 statute at the track stadium named for him is featured in a couple episodes of Aerial Americaand his role in the 1936 Olympics is mentioned in The Boys in the Boatand in Unbroken. We found a geocache at his 1986 Memorial near the entrance to Ohio Stadium on The Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, Ohio then wended our way to the track stadium across the river. We’ve got the movie Race in our iTunes wish list. When we have a good wifi connection we can download and watch the movie.
We learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.
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 learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.