No, Texas is not our current location. We’re in southeastern Arizona, at an I-10 rest area north of places like Tombstone and Sierra Vista. As we zoom along I-10, traveling longer today than we’d like, we have Picacho, Arizona behind us and Las Cruces, New Mexico as today’s destination. As we pass interesting location after interesting location we’re thinking we need to plan a trip that allows us to linger a while in this area but today we’ll just enjoy the fabulous scenery at this Texas Canyon Rest Area while we make sandwiches and prepare for the next leg of today’s journey.
It really feels like being on the moon, such a vast area of beautiful white sand. I had a roommate who lived not too far from there, so a visit there was always fun.
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.
It really feels like being on the moon, such a vast area of beautiful white sand. I had a roommate who lived not too far from there, so a visit there was always fun.