Days 6 and 7 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) Yay! 🙌 We have a car… and now we need to learn the rules in Botswana. Not by reading and studying the laws, but by disobeying them at police check points. In all fairness, this was an impromptu police check point set up not 20 kms from

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Day 5 (Rhia’s comments are italicized) Wherever you go in Botswana, so much innovation can be seen; from children making clothes for their dolls out of old, deflated balloons and paper to others setting up stores at the bottom of their gardens. To my delight, this innovation can also be seen in education as the

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Day 4 (Dan’s comments are italicized) WOW! I know the journey was long but I’ve never experienced jetlag like this before!! My brain feels like it’s moving around in a thick sludge; thinking is difficult and reasoning is nigh impossible! But I suspect I have company (and no, I’m not referring to Dan); I think

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Days 1-3: The Journey (Dan’s comments are italicized) That was a loooong journey…46 hours door-to-door and we’re exhausted… I can’t believe I’m back in Africa!! Although I’ve spent roughly three years working and backpacking in the southern-eastern parts of Africa, I was last here 33 years ago so don’t know what to expect any more!

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Days 80, 81, and 82 (Dan’s comments are italicized) With some sadness, we said goodbye to Brian and Cwmaman and headed off toward Chester. Chester is a very interesting city as it was a stronghold during Roman times and continued to be an important city through the middle ages to the present. On top of

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Days 76, 77, 78, and 79 Rhia’s comments are italicized Our Stay with old Interact friends in Aberdare ended, but we moved just three miles away to Cwmaman, to visit our brother-in-law, Brian. Cwmaman is a tiny village that’s part of Aberdare that developed around a coalmine…but it’s a great jumping off point for many

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Days 72, 73, 74 and 75 (Dan’s comments are italicized) It’s strange being back in the place I spent my youth. In some ways, it hasn’t changed at all but in other ways, I can barely recognize it. My dad was the minister (preacher) of Siloa Chapel from 1969 til 1986 when he retired. He

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Days 70 and 71 (Dan’s comments are italicized) On our last day with Jane in Plymouth, we managed to leave the rain behind for a bit when we visited Dartmouth. What a beautiful village!! If the UK had the weather, it would rival almost anywhere in continental Europe. Because Dartmouth is another old town, many

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Days 68 and 69 (Dan’s comments are italicized) In the UK, you don’t wait for a warm day to go to the beach (as you could be waiting for months); you go when you have time! We went to a beautiful, local sandy beach. Although it threatened rain, it didn’t actually do so until we

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