We are home again and settling back into some sort of routine after a month of medical mission and traveling. Last week we did a trip to South Luangwa game park in eastern Zambia with Mark and Michele Broadway and nine others from the medical mission team. We spent four days on the road--two days to get there and two days coming back. Grueling is the word I would use to describe the journey. The scenery was gorgeous in several places, but stretches of the road were very bad, and the last four hours of the drive into Luangwa were on a rough dirt road. We did enjoy an overnight stop both ways at Mapepe Bible College to see our friends David and Lorie French.
South Luangwa Game Park was incredible and made the travel worthwhile. The game viewing has to be some of the best in Africa. We saw elephants, all kinds of antelope, zebras, cape buffalo, giraffes, bushbabies, civets, hippos, a leopard, and lions. We stayed right on the river and listened to the hippos bellowing to each other at night. An elephant strolled right by our chalet, and monkeys jumped in the trees over the roof. The giraffe and lioness above were within a few feet of our vehicle during a game drive.
Mark and Michele are finishing up all kinds of last minute projects for us before they leave on Thursday. I'm preparing myself for a letdown when the house is empty again after having so much activity in June and July. We won't have much time to think about it, however, as the follow up on medical mission contacts begins in August.
