6/28/98: Today is Sunday, so Bill & Carol J., and family, took us to a Masai Church down in the Great Rift Valley. The overcast weather matched my gloomy attitude, but the…
Category: Travel With Purpose
Daily posts marking the 25th anniversary of the1998 round-the-world trip I took with my wife. We visited 11 countries to work on a series of short-term projects for missionaries from many different organizations. I’ll be posting a photo or two every day, along with snippets of the travel blog I posted back then, as well as some present day reflections on the trip and the various topics that emerged as we travelled.
Seeing Clearly Through A Chilling Fog
6/27/98: Lazed around and did not much of anything today. The hospital campus was decidedly slow in activity, I guess because it was the weekend, and we had no formal assignments yet….
Hurry Up And Wait
6/26/98: Ruth went off to the hospital, and I headed over to the office to see if there was any work to do… NOTE: The photo above is Ruth. Checking email. Some…
Sometimes Things Get Blurry And Off-Balance
6/25/98: Managed to find a ride up to Kijabe by connections over at the Mayfield Guesthouse, the one run by AIM here in Nairobi… NOTE: The blurry action photo above shows me…
Unexpected Connections
6/24/98: Last-minute errands, the pharmacy and some photos for Doug & Nancy E. Hard to leave after such a great experience… NOTE: The photo above shows a photo of Joe Kadenge, a…
More New Friends In Zimbabwe
6/20/98: Today was sports day for all of Dan & Julie’s boys. Wes and Will (twins) and Jason all play rugby on the Gateway Christian School team. Two of them wound up…
The Multi-cultural Tapestry Of The Global Christian Movement
6/17/98: TEAM staff member Sydney gave me a ride over to Harare Theological College (HTC) this morning. I took photos of the campus and students in classroom settings… 6/18/98: No work assignment…
Contextual Intersection
6/15/98: Ruth went off with Melita this morning for tea downtown. I was glad she finally got to spend some time with someone other than me! 24 hours a day, seven days…
Wrong Side Of The Road
6/14/98: Our train arrived in Harare exactly on time, and we managed to sleep better on this leg of travel. We found a taxi driver who agreed on a reasonable price and…
View Of The World
6/13/98: Arthur had to work, but Sylvia, determined to show us even more adventure, took us to the Matobo National Park… NOTE: The photo above is a detail of the cave paintings…
When Dining Is A Whiplash Experience
6/12/98: Ruth and I went to the National Museum and were quite impressed. Small, but excellent presentations. One display there was particularly interesting to me… NOTE: The photo above is the display…
Very Very Small Antelope
6/11/98: Got precious little sleep due to the constant starts and stops of the train. It was rather cold as well… NOTE: The photo above is a Bush Duiker that we saw…
Crazy People Jumping Off A Bridge
6/10/98: The bridge that straddles the gorge under Victoria Falls now serves two purposes. First it is a border crossing to Zambia. Second, it is a launching point for crazy people who…
Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Smoke That Thunders
6/9/98: A very full day that included a crocodile ranch, a troop of baboons, several grazing elephants and a walk along the upper Zambezi River that ended with a spectacular view…
Zebra In The Mist
6/8/98: Went on a guided safari walk at sunrise this morning, out in Balla Balla Field and Sibayao Pan just outside the main camp. The morning mist lent an ethereal look to…
I Did Not Know Hyenas Eat Bones…
6/6/98: 75 days since we left home, and now we find ourselves treated to a safari by new friends and learning about big game in their native habitat from Ndebele and Shona…
Unfamiliar Experiences Breed Respect
6/5/98: Up at 4:30am to catch a flight to Bulawayo. Sylvia H. met us at the airport and brought us right home, introduced us to her husband Arthur, then we made haste…
A Couple Of Hours, And It’s A Bit Bumpy…
6/4/98: Packed up once again to begin a cross-country trip to Bulawayo. No one from the hospital was heading to town, so we caught a local bus into Harare. There were differing…
My Brief Career As An Aerial Photographer
6/3/98: Dan and I tried to climb a tree this morning, hoping to get a nice panoramic photograph of the whole compound from across the river… NOTE: The photo above…
Kind Of Blue
6/2/98: Both Ruth and I are finally experiencing our first real case of homesickness… NOTE: Photo above is a village home, or musha, that I photographed on one of our forays…
Shona Gospel Hymns
6/1/98: I led devotions in Chapel this morning… NOTE: The photo above is me giving the devotional message in Chapel at Karanda Mission Hospital. 6/1/23: I was a graduate of…
Fixing A Hole
5/31/98: Sunday Church Service combined with a Memorial Service out at one of the mushas. Great singing. NOTE: The main photo above shows nurses from Karanda Mission Hospital at the summit overlook…
A Difficult Work Worth Doing
5/30/98: More hospital analysis for Ruth and more photography for me. Today I took photos of the Awana Club children’s outreach program. Also finally reached Arthur and Sylvia H. in Bulawayo. Friends…
Building Trusting Relationships
5/29/98: Had a bumpy ride through the bush with the Home-Based Health Care team today… NOTE: The main photo above shows us arriving at a village with the Home-Based Health Care Team….
The Way To A Peaceful Heart: Be Thankful, Pray And Rejoice!
5/28/98: More photography around the hospital campus, including vaccines for children, and Dr. Dan doing surgery… NOTE: The main photo above shows a nurse at Karanda Hospital giving a vaccination…