7/2/98: I took a few pictures of the ENT Team at Bethany Center today while they were on their rounds… NOTE: The photo above shows an infant patient ready for reconstructive palette…
Tag: Travel With Purpose
Yearning No More
7/1/98: 100 days on the road! Still feels somewhat unreal, but for different reasons… NOTE: The photo is the sunset above the clouds from near the 10,000 foot summit of Haleakala, on…
Thank You, Lord, For The Rain
6/30/98: Bill, and his assistant, Edward, had to go into Nairobi today to pick up some new folks, so I joined him and attended to some errands of my own in the…
Bird’s Eye View
6/29/98: Met with Mwaura today. Unfortunately, I wasn’t of much assistance. His equipment is so out of date that I was amazed that he manages to get a magazine published at all….
The Great Rift Valley And The One Christian Church
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…
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…
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…
We Began To Feel Self-Consciously Embarrassed
6/7/98: Up early for a nice breakfast. It is getting to feel rather extravagant to be so well taken care of! The H’s, W’s, and Q’s have brought an abundance of delicacies…
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…
The How (getting from here to there)
When someone asks me “How did you travel around the world?” I dryly, but truthfully, respond: “Mostly lanes, trains and automobiles, but also by ferry boats on the sea, busses with chickens,…