Our dear friend Sherri follows our travels through this blog and today sent us a message suggesting we get together while the two of us are here in western NC. We used Yelp! to find Sherrill’s Pioneer Restaurant in Clyde NC as a convenient location midway between her place and ours. Sherrill’s is a landmark here, it opened in 1954 at the same time as the highway was completed. It’s s bit of a time machine with food choices items that probably appeared on the original menu. We enjoyed the convenient location and the friendly service as we engaged in lively conversation. Then after settling the bill, they charged a one dollar fee for the privilege of using a debit card, we continued to linger under our umbrella in the drizzling rain in the parking lot reluctant to let the visit end but if not for the blog, we would have had this great visit.
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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