Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine

I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic.  Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed.  I am also going to talk about what…

A change in story of Thanks

I started this week with one blog topic in mind since it would be around Thanksgiving when I would post it.  I worked on it when I got enough power to the computer I could type it up.  I planned to pen a blog on being thankful for the use of the house at the…

Everybody walk the dinosaur

My pardons to Was (Not Was) on the use of their song phrase but I really wanted a song title to talk about walking here.  There were many to choose from Ronettes’ Walking In The Rain; Katrina and the Wave’s Walking On Sunshine; Johnny Cash’s I Walk the Line to the Bangles Walk Like an…

Habits

As it has been over a month since my last blog posting, I have been thinking a lot about habits.  There are good habits such as regular prayer as I have been reading about in the book “Confessions of a Prayer Slacker” by Diane Moody. There are bad habits such as smoking.  Trying to write…

A week in the life

While this first week on site was not designed to be a lot of hands on work due to my need to re-acclimatize to ever present heat and life in the valley I thought you may want kind of a day by day account of what goes on here. After a long weekend in Singida meeting up with…

The Walking Retread

Sorry for the play on the TV show name but it seemed appropriate for today’s discussion.  As I have talked about some in past blogs, one of the things I get to do a lot of is walk.  I normally walk 5 miles (total-3 at the site and 2 in town to the bus station)…