I am in Africa!!  And what do you think that means?!?!  There are elephants and rhinos and monkeys and giraffes and hippos EVERYWHERE!!!  And it would be SILLY not to go find them and enjoy a safari, RIGHT?!   Well, that was what we set out to do last weekend!!  But it wasn’t so easy…. Since the schools are…

Several weeks ago I found myself on a flight to Ankara, Turkey to see Evan Johnson and Elizabeth Leonardi. They moved there in the Fall for Elizabeth’s job for the US government, while Evan is getting his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Straddling the junction of two continents, Turkey has served as a land bridge, meeting point,…

Well, I have made it one month in Ghana!  I have struggled to start this post because I need the tone to reflect something different than our previous posts.  Where as most of our posts provide comical interludes about our adventures and misadventures around the world, I hope the content of this post, and some more to follow, can provide…

For Kelley’s last weekend in Israel before her sojourn in Ghana we headed south to Eilat. The city is relatively new, it was originally a small settlement until the modern city was built after the Israel War for Independence in 1948. Eilat is the southernmost point of Israel and sits on the Red Sea, which…

Several weeks ago Kelley and I traveled north to explore the ancient seaport of Akko (or Acre), the churches around the Sea of Galilee where Jesus practiced his ministry, and the Hula Valley, a major bird migratory stop. Akko sits on the northern edge of Haifa Bay and you can see it from the Baha’i…