Wednesday – Feb 1 How delightful to start a day with some sleep behind and a hot shower to wash off two days of travel! Lovely. Breakfast here always includes coffee and lovely pastries so who needs anything more?! I would think, after all the travel I’ve done, I wouldn’t continue to be surprised by…
Finally – Back to Africa!
Early morning at PDX. Bags all checked, through security, and enjoying a breakfast sandwich and coffee. Great way to start a trip, ignoring the fact that it’s 5:30 am and I’ve been up since 3. No worries, though. How can I have an adventure without a little inconvenience! So where am I going? To Senegal!…
Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye
Wednesday – 8/26 Our last day in Peru – sigh. We really had the day to ourselves until our 5pm airport pickup. We had to check out of the hotel by 9:30 so we planned breakfast and our final packing accordingly. Then we were looking for a spot to have devotions and Sandy found this…
A New Reality
It’s a beautiful sunny day out here at the farm. I’m sitting, looking out my window at the spring green grass, the pink puffs of trees, and my favorite, the cheerful bobbing yellow daffodil heads. On one of my drives to town, I pass a field full of newborn lambs, sniffing out life or getting…
Jill – Where Are You?
Oh, the places you’ll go!! Sitting on the plane headed to Istanbul and ending in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Life continues to amaze me. Yesterday was our last full day in Bangladesh. We awoke in Khulna, had breakfast, drove about two hours to Jessore, caught a short hop flight, and ended back in Dhaka again. Just coming…
Lost Childhood – day 6
Our last field day in Bangladesh. Again, we started our day in a slum – Rupsha. I had been here on my previous trip. It had not improved. The narrow lanes with room for only one person to pass, the filthy black runoff beside the path, the tiny houses crammed together. Cooking fires added smoke…
Why God, Why? day 5
Our days here are so full! Each day seems to pack in a week’s worth of activities and today was no exception. After getting fueled up with high octane coffee, we set out to one of the local fish markets. These dot the shore of the Rupsha River as fishermen bring their night’s catch upriver…
Bright Hope for Tomorrow – day 4
Today started in a slum – a place by a large river with huge flats of fertilizer bags stored on the shoreline. Because of course the very poor don’t mind this! We walked down narrow alleys, often with tiny streams of filthy water running along side. Each single room house shared walls with the next…
And God Laughs and Cries – day 3
Jessore is a much smaller city than the 20 million populated Dhaka. The area of town we were in was cleaner and not quite so crowded. Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. People everywhere. And always the bright colors of women’s clothing, the brightly decorated easy rides, (bike pulled…
Little Girls in Bangladesh – day 2
What do I say about today? Or more to the point, what do I leave out! It has been one of the most intense days of my life! Seeing God so clearly in the warmth of our welcomes, flowers, flowers, flowers, and especially the precious eyes and faces of beautiful little girls. After a great…
Ready, Set, Go
Day 1 – I arrived in Dhaka at 5 am, Nov 2. As I left on Oct 31, Nov 1 got rather lost in the travel! I’ll make up going back with a day I’ll do almost twice. As I’m doing so much more traveling, I came over on my own itinerary. The rest of…
Holy Ends Holy Beginnings 