http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Cape Verde en-us Wed, 02 Dec 09 22:27:12 +0000 Wed, 02 Dec 09 22:27:12 +0000 I can't help it but my suitcase it ready and I am sooooooooo happy we are off tomorrowClaudia already has her blowdryer in her suitcase so she is more or less ready too Route 66 we are on our way Be nice to us and let us have a marvelous experience http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-423770.html Yesterday the American Embassy hold a cocktail party for the upcoming 4th of July celebrations We had a good time and even made a tribute dance to Thriller and Smooth Criminal. We also grabbed some goodies for our trip ... Lesley will generously lent us her GPS we have a flag for the car O and a few more leaflets of Route 66 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-414818.html As of yesterday we are in the last month prior to our departure We have our tickets to Boston Chicago and have booked the hotels for one overnight stay in Boston and 2 in Chicago The car is not yet booked but that is only a matter of hours http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-414452.html The island of Santiago in the region of Praia. I done some charity work here painting a local nursery school. We stayed in a luxurious resort for cheap as well. Very nice place worth a visit... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-411757.html Happy Palm SundayToday we are in Mindelo Cape Verde Islands which is just off the most western part of the African continent. It is a volcanic island that gets almost no rain so the dark barren mountains run right down to the sea. Very dramatic. They speak Portugese here so I can't read the billboards and signs. But they drive on the proper side of the road It seems most of the other pla http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/S-o-Vicente/blog-387896.html A nostress holiday in a wonderful place http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-361703.html in a few days i'll be leaving my Lisbon town again and set of for a week in Boavista Isle in Cape Verde.can I wait we'll see about that soon enough. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Boa-Vista/blog-345943.html My apologies for not posting pictures yesterday. The one internet caf in Saint Vincent had only one computer with internet the wireless cost 10 an hour. I just couldnrsquot justify spending that amount when Irsquoll be in Barcelona in less than a week. Cape Verde was greathellipway too quick but great. I signed up for a shore excursion in the morning because it was cheap and the only wa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-256811.html The last two days have been great. March 10 was a free day and it was also wedding day. I had cultural show rehearsal in the morning and spent the afternoon reading and beautifying myself for the wedding. We all filed outside at 5 for the ceremony which was very multicultural. Not only was everyone dressed in outfits from around the world but we had a nondenominational ceremony a reading from http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-255489.html I remember writing last let that I thought it was my busiest leg I would have more time to blog in the future. I was wrong.Our first day back my computer charger completely died. I asked IT if they had computers to loan and they did not. I really thought I was donehellipI donrsquot know how to function on this boat without a computer. Then I found out the LRC library computers had undergo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-254605.html Septima the super sleeperHaving been here for about two and a half weeks one would think that we would be sufferig cabin fever yet surprisingly we are not. Although that may have more to do with the fact that given the amount of running we have been doing yes running on sand is now my personal hell Seppy has been designated the super sleeper of the group having sucessfully slept for http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-249011.html 1 240km over different terrain sanddunes rocks soft sand roads mountains who knows what else2 In the Western Sahara Desert in Morocco3 Carrying your own food sleeping bag emergency kit clothes and anything else you may need4 The organisers will provide 9 litres of water over the course of a day which will have to be sufficient for drinking cooking and sanitary purposes. They also provid http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Sal/blog-246680.html Life at sea. So filled with contrasts that you every minute is torn between the most extreme feelings and emotions there are. A day when the sun smiles down on you and the wind is favourable you feel like you are on the top of the world and everything just makes sense. Whereas when the rain pours down and the wind makes the sea angry you merely feel like a wet spot with no purpose or place So far http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/S-o-Vicente/blog-226076.html St LouisDakarCape VerdeTom GriffithFesta Cape Verde like most isolated micronations is a pretty bloody weird place. It is not exactly a tourist mecca lying out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and coming somewhere slightly above Burkina Faso in the'Where the hell is that' stakes. In fact I'd barely heard of it until we saw it in the West Africa Lonely Planet and thought it might be a n http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/S-o-Vicente/blog-166357.html Idiosyncrasies of unknown origin conjure against the possible footballculture binomial. It seems that in the modern western traveler cosmogony the world is divided in two groups separated by waterproof doors. On one side of this imaginary partition find place those brainless football lovers who eat meat drink beer and listen to cheesy songs. Incapable of thinking to anything deeper than a corne http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/Santiago/blog-162410.html Boavista in Cabo Verdeapril 2006A beautiful corner in the middle of the ocean... No more Africa not yet Brasil... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-54128.html fgfgfgfg http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Cape-Verde/blog-14643.html