Travel not only stirs the blood... It also gives strength to the spirit--- Florence Kahn

My time in Botswana is done. I have good memories of it all. It is with mixed emotions that I leave.. so much I could do and contribute but I am being called home...  literally. I have met so many people who have contributed to my education in life. I wonder at it all. I took some money (pula) out of the atm and it gave me back my balance in pula, we could get a nice plot in Kasane and safari everyday for it. Not J's thing but 4 month a year would be nice. Unfortunately everyone that visited would stay 3 weeks to make the 27 hours of travel worth while. Today at the morning prayer service they sang a special song for me ; "How great thou art"  ( no I am not kidding).  One never know the impact one has on another. I was extended a welcome and I have extended a welcome back. Tonight I am going out with Brenda to the Bull and Bush, no better way to celebrate, the issue is what are we celebrating?  Hopefully in some way  it be large or small, great or good, we have contributed to the world.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman

 This posting is just some pictures in  and around Gaborone, maybe some interesting sites...

Brenda, myself and Adele as she leaving to go home last week

This empty lot is where they teach people to drive there are everywhere

Just some shops in the African Mall

Some guys asking for 10 pula for beer ( hidden bottle under the table)

for my lutheran friends

sculptures on the way to work outside the museum

very friendly lion

You have to pretty old to remember Rhodesia

A "convee" holds 12 people and costs about 50 cents ( the bus system)

for my Anglican family

the gardens

the main entrance to the hospital where the clinic I work is

The short cut

The "wards" are joined by open air walk ways (hallways)

drying patient's laundry

a peaceful place

coming to Canada and needs a job as a nurse

the last morning at the clinic at the prayer service

 Unfortunately my batteries exhausted so a small video

 

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes-- Proust

Did not have paved paths in the old days!!

Misty coloured  memories.......

Just some beautiful green

remember these people they are across in Zambia

It is at this point  I think I met Remi, Johnathan, and Theodore. No that is not us!! But keep an eye on that group Remi and Jon were here with Canadian Forces setting up training for the several authorities in Africa (IT training). Theodore is a 10 month old and we met on the air plane here. So I began my walk with them....

Proof I was there... or is this Sudury

those people are in a calm pool just at the edge of the falls. no thanks

A little dry so not much water but remember the red raft at the bottom of the picture

A calm swimming hole

Me dwarfing the falls

a long long long way down

some one turned the water off!!

The bridge between Zimbabwe and Zambia

About to leave Zimbabwe and go to Zambia ( at lest half way across)

Equal opportunity road crew

School trip

View from the bridge

Waiting for me at the hotel

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel--- Fuchs

Tour of Victoria falls was very hot around 38 and I drank two litres of water. So by the time I got back to the hotel I was ready for a swim in the pool. At four I was picked up and taken to catch a sunset boat cruise on the Zambezi River. So another journey begins.

Always there at the door to say goodbye

Houses on "plots" like a subdivision

authentic tribal dancing at the boat

the ladies do not dance they just cheer!!

Our yacht awaits

Keep coming back to the dancers for some reason

Yes I will have a gin and tonic

an extraordinary view

Mist from Victoria falls in the centre

my friend the hippos' cousins

yeah right a herbivore my lettuce!!!

The water level so low just standing around

Waiting for dinner??

It is a sunset cruise after all

Digesting dinner on the beach

"go ahead ,  touch m tail

remember the read boat? Keep in mind that this is now before the falls

Young elephant on the road back to Kasane, Botswana

The Zambezi River where  the countries Namibia, Zambia Botswana and Zimbabwe all join

My ride back to Gaborone

It was a great trip, eye opening about the poverty in Zimbabwe. Then flying across the Kalahari Desert.