As we sit here at trackside at the Greenville SC Amtrak Station waiting for The Crescent to arrive we’ve been watching Norfolk Southern freight trains come and go. Just now an intriguing little train pulled in. With it’s shiny new looks and unusual equipment, it’s intriguing. We looked it up and learned that the Operation Awareness & Response Train was introduced earlier this year as a training resource for first responders. In between trains we’re alternating between reading Rocket Boys aloud and checking the Amtrak website for status on The Crescent. If nothing changes it looks as if we’ll board minutes before 1AM, two hours late. Here’s hoping our porter has our roomette in sleeping mode so we can change into jammies, brush our teeth, and slip into our bunk beds. Looking forward to a good sleep as our train wends it’s way toward into Virginia and beyond.
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.
As we sit here at trackside at the Greenville SC Amtrak Station waiting for The Crescent to arrive we’ve been watching Norfolk Southern freight trains come and go. Just now an intriguing little train pulled in. With it’s shiny new looks and unusual equipment, it’s intriguing. We looked it up and learned that the Operation Awareness & Response Train was introduced earlier this year as a training resource for first responders. In between trains we’re alternating between reading Rocket Boys aloud and checking the Amtrak website for status on The Crescent. If nothing changes it looks as if we’ll board minutes before 1AM, two hours late. Here’s hoping our porter has our roomette in sleeping mode so we can change into jammies, brush our teeth, and slip into our bunk beds. Looking forward to a good sleep as our train wends it’s way toward into Virginia and beyond.
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