Well, the trip is over and I took a bit of a breather from blogging.  I arrived home on Monday afternoon, without my bags.  I had a quick turnaround in Frankfurt that ended up being really quick, I got off my plane from Paris as my flight from Frankfurt started boarding.  Not enough time for [...]

Tomorrow is our last full day.  We leave tomorrow evening on an overnight flight from Conakry to Paris.  When I wake up tomorrow it will be a day full of goodbyes.  Today was a day without much business.  We didn’t see any alliance projects, it was just a day to relax and reflect on the [...]

We finally left the interior and headed back toward Conakry but before we got there we had 2 more stops to make.  It was hard to leave the ‘rustic’ cabins, especially with that view but I think I kind of like Conakry too.  The first stop was at the Compassion hospital in Mamou (or just [...]

Today was a fantastic day!  I loved every minute of it and wish I could’ve spent a few more days up here.  The Dueck’s are great people and on top of that, they have 4 kids (including twins).  Can you believe it?  4 kids!  It’s like the perfect number of children.  They have 3 boys [...]

So today we drove to two places, the first was Mamou, in the interior and then we ended up at Tinka a place where the C&MA has what you might call, ummm, rustic cabins.
Our day started off early with about a 5-6 hour drive.  Having spent some time driving on Jamaican roads I sort of [...]