Sunday, October 16, 2011

Goree Island, Senegal


On our ferry ride out to Gorée island, I took a couple pictures from the ferry.
View of a hill-top restaurant from below.
View of the ramp leading up to the top of the island.

There are no cars on Gorée island. These narrow cooridors between walled courtyards are all there are for the limited foot traffic.

I must be an American (I am) from the city (I'm not). I've never seen so much livestock living right alongside people. I've also never seen so many goats.
The entrance to the fort.
You can research Gorée island for yourself. Its history is long and generally not very pretty.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Dakar, Senegal

We pulled into Dakar, Sengal as our first stop in Africa.
This is a shot of the fort on Gorée island, which is just outside the mouth of the port.
There is a ferry that transits hourly from Dakar to Gorée island.
I didn't realize this fellow was bailing until I looked at the picture later. When I took the picture I was just trying to capture some of the local, small-craft traffic.
View from the port out towards Gorée island.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Catching Up: Rota, Spain

It has been forever since I posted something.  Actually, my last post was made from my phone, so it almost doesn't count as a post. 

I've gone through some of the pictures from my trip to the other side of the Atlantic.  I've attempted to keep the pictures all sorted so they properly depict where they were actually take.  Please forgive me if I get one wrong from time to time.  For someone that makes a bunch of lists, I did a pretty poor job of keeping track of where all the pictures were taken.

So, from the beginning, I bring you Rota, Spain.  We were dropped off here at the manos.
From there we wandered, we drank, we ate.  We wandered some more.
I love being able to travel to different parts of the world.  So many wonderful things to see.
History is all around us, we just fail to see it sometimes.
I can't express how much I like tile, or how little we actually use it in the United States.  Relegating tile to the bath and kitchen really doesn't do it justice.
Down this little side street is a great little pub.  We stopped there for a time, too.
I didn't spend any real time at the beach, but it was inviting.
Back again to manos.
I leave you with this picture of a decreasing speed limit that appears to end with an exclamation point.  Startling, to be sure.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Random travel pics

I haven't been taking many pictures with my droid to update the blog so here are some random shots I thought to share.

As you can see, I've been sampling the wonderful foods I've found.