Today’s route from Ana Reservoir RV Park to Crystal Crane has taken us through some wide open spaces around Table Rock Mountain along Christmas Valley Highway in the northern reaches of the Great Basin desert. This time we knew that we’d find a little oasis in the desert in the form of the town of Riley, Oregon. Back in 2014 we’d stopped here ever so grateful for a fuel stop opportunity. With plans today to fuel up in Burns, a few miles east of here, we stopped at the Riley Store for a few provisions. Arriving just after us was Alice traveling in a 2019 T@B 400! Who would have expected two T@B 400s to rendezvous in this minuscule town of just two buildings here on US-20?
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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