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Dakar, Senegal: A Wolof Village & The Pink Lake

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.

Desert Safari: Meet Namibia’s Hidden Creatures

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.

Cape Town: African Wildlife Adventures

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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Stuckey’s

Jul 12, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Illinois, Kentucky, Road Trip, States | 0 Comments

Last night we enjoyed our stay at Dam East-McNair Campground, near Carlyle, Illinois remembering our 2016 stay at Dam West, on the other end of the dam. So today's journey was a trek across the Illinois from just east of the Mississippi River to just over the Ohio...

Field of Dreams

Jul 11, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Iowa, Road Trip, States | 0 Comments

“Build it and they will come.” It's the theme of the 1989 movie, Field of Dreams which we watched shortly after our teenaged son read W.P. Kinsella's novel, Shoeless Joe. Through the years we've rewatched this film quite a few times fascinated with the historical...

Effigy Mounds National Monument

Jul 11, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Effigy Mounds NM - Iowa, Iowa, Mound Builders, National Parks, Native Americans, Road Trip, States | 1 Comment

Effigy Mounds Video The 10:30AM Ranger led Fire Point Hike at Effigy Mounds National Monument near Harper's Ferry, Iowa was well worth the effort to leave our campsite early this morning. Located adjacent to Iowa's section of the Great River Road overlooking the...

Paddling Across

Jul 10, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Minnesota, Road Trip, States | 3 Comments

Together we’ve crossed the Mississippi River countless times via bridges. A few years ago at Lake Itasca we did it across stepping stones. Today Karen did it on a stand up paddle board! Ever since our first experience trying a stand up paddle board in Wisconsin, Karen...

Bluegrass on Prairie Island

Jul 9, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Minnesota, Road Trip, States | 0 Comments

As we left the Minneapolis-St Paul area we deliberately avoided the urban section of the Great River Road and instead skirted the Twin Cities to the south and east to Hastings where we picked up the scenic road again. As the road meandered along the west bank of the...

Historic Fort Snelling

Jul 8, 2022 | 12-Zachary Taylor, 2022 North & North Again, Civil War, Dakota, Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society, Native Americans, Presidential Sites, Road Trip, States | 0 Comments

Today’s adventure yielded so much more than we ever expected even from a Minnesota Historical Society site. The human history at what became Fort Snelling here at the confluence of the Minnesota and the Mississippi Rivers began at least 10,000 years ago according to...

The Falls of St Anthony

Jul 7, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Dakota, Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area - Minnesota, National Parks, Native Americans, Road Trip, States | 1 Comment

Despite misgivings about venturing into the traffic of a metropolitan area, we headed into the heart of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After finding a garage parking site (We love the ParkMobile app) and breakfasting at the nearby Farmers Kitchen + Bar, we walked the short...

River Road: From Rural to Urban

Jul 6, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Minnesota, Road Trip, States | 1 Comment

Today's adventure has been another day of driving The Great River Road starting from the hamlet of Palisade along back roads. It felt a bit like a trip through time when the route took us on dirt roads through farmland with old and weathered farm buildings. Along with...

Over the River and Through the Woods

Jul 6, 2022 | 2022 North & North Again, Minnesota, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area - Minnesota, National Parks, Road Trip, States | 0 Comments

Yesterday was our first day of actually driving the Great River Road. We joined the Mississippi on the east side of Lake Bemidji and meandered along the river all the way to Palisade. It truly is an area that invites you to travel over the river and through the woods....

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