Author: Adventures

Method behind the madness. After a week or so in the middle of the bush of Africa, someone turned to me and asked, “Are you shaving your legs this week?” This question did not even phase me and I proceeded to answer honestly. A few seconds later we were still having a conversation about shaving for the next two months. After realizing what some of us were going to look like after not shaving for two months, I busted out laughing.   Only in Africa, would we be asking these questions, I thought.  Is this real life?...

On the way to Kampala, the capital city of Uganda I played a little game with myself, I spy with my little eye Africa style. It is hard to imagine that the things I’m seeing here are starting to become “normal” where as a month ago I would be in shock. Africa is so beautiful and although the trees and wide skies are beautiful that isn’t what I mean. I mean that Africa is full of God’s natural creating. The beauty of Africa is the simplicity of it. People in their raw form utilizing everything they have and not living in abundance but in the bare necessities. It...

It is impossible to explain all that I have experienced and learned in the last few days. I shock myself when I say days because I feel like I have been gone from home and in Africa for months! My world has been rocked, shaken and rattled. After a few days I can’t even imagine my life being the same once returning home.   After arriving in Africa on June 3 we spent a night in Nanyuki and the next day took a safari (journey) to the middle of Kenya. A place called Satiman, Kenya. We drove on dirt roads for over 3 hours and when we arrived, the most beautiful people greeted us. They...