Cape Town Preparation

Tuesday, August 12, 2008,

After a good nights rest we visited the venue today. It is a veladrome, a bicycle racing arena where the track is sloped in an oval/circle shape and the "infield" is where the stage and the chairs will be placed and a few sections of chairs in the outer ring. It is a venue that could have been nice if it would have been finished and maintained. Apparently, they were hoping to get the 2012 Olympics and when they did not, they never finished or maintained the building.

But, the city of Cape Town is beautiful and I had time to visit the top of Signal Hill to look out over the Cape and the City. Some beautiful shots that I posted only a few with this posting. I finally quit waiting on help from someone else and figured it out for myself since I had some time on how to add some photos to the blog, which I am sure everyone is very pleased, finally. I hope you enjoy "some" of the more than 400 pictures I have taken thus far. Not as many as last time for sure, but I had a lot of help last tour.

Anyway, the last event of this Leg II of the Tour is tomorrow night and I head home Thursday night at 11:35pm and arrive home Friday evening. I fly from Cape Town to Amsterdam, seems I have been there a few times before as a stopping station to somewhere else quite often. It will definitely be good to get home...so I can help my wife, who has been slaving at home trying to take care of things there, get us all packed and moved to Austin (Dripping Springs, TX).

Another post will be sometime Thursday my time, about the event here in Cape Town, S.A. Let me say now, if there is a place I want to return to of all the places so far, it is South Africa. It is much like Texas with friendly people, good food and a wide variety of animals, even bigger than Texas, sorry Texas people.