Karibu – Zoe, Taylor, Rebecca, Charlotte, Will, Izzy, Alexa, Chris, Victoria, and Jessica!
Welcome! This is the blog through which you’ll be sharing your adventures with friends and family from across the globe. It will be a place to post photos, tell stories and store memories as a group. And it will become a place where your loved ones will come to find out where in the heck your adventurous spirit has taken you since you saw them last.
Each of you will take turns documenting our shared experiences and posting these journal entries for the world to see. Blogger will be one of the roles that each member of our traveling family will rotate through as we journey in East Africa. These roles will help each of you build the skills to become independent travelers in the developing world. At the same time, sharing responsibility will help our group build a tight-knit community that will quickly come to resemble a family.
We’re looking forward to an educational journey with you, full of adventure, smells, toil, sights and laughs. In the meantime, we’re anxious to discuss the details of our first in-person meeting in Portland or Amsterdam, so keep your eyes out for the 503 area code on your cell phone. Hopefully you’ve already had a chance to pore through the itinerary, pick up a phrasebook, and read up on the history and culture of East Africa. For now, enjoy your last week in the States: Eat the foods you love, hug your families and pets, and pick up those last minute travel-essentials. Next stop, Uganda.
Salama,
Karen and Cliff
