Reflections on first trip to Africa
My father-in-law asked me last week why I hadn’t posted anything recently. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it several times but things have been busy and time has gotten away from me. In less than two months I have traveled to Africa twice, first to the Democratic Republic of Congo and then to Liberia, and I was in charge of a week long visit to the headquarters for a media delegation from Ghana. And in the middle of all that I also went to Malta for a long weekend to visit Tom...thus the earlier post of me and my heavenly hot chocolate . I began writing a blog post about my trip to the DRC, which was my first ever trip to Africa, to submit for Africa Command's Wordpress blog but I never finished it. I grabbed the draft though and will post it here. This was written in February when I was on the trip and I worked on it some when I got back. There’s no doubt…it is hot in central Africa in February but surprisingly not as shocking to the system as I thought it would b...