In the past several months of travel, one of the coolest places I’ve visited was just outside of Hargeisa, Somaliland. We have a food security project where we have piloted 600 household grain storage silos. They are one ton in…
Snippets of Travel in East Africa
Once again I’ve fallen into the delinquent trap of being so busy with various adventures in coming and going that I haven’t kept along with myself. It’s really be an incredible couple of months. Just after Zanzibar I head straight…
Back on the Road
Returning from my recent hiatus in the states, with three weeks back with family in Oregon and five weeks in DC (the longest I’ve been there in more than a year!), I’m now back on the road. I landed in…
Comic Relief
I’m headed out to the field in the morning, so no time for a long post. One of the best parts of travel area all of the crazy things you see. Most are hard to capture, and are quickly forgotten,…
Mount Nyiragongo
There are some of those things that you dream of without really thinking it through. Hiking Mount Nyiragongo, the world’s most active volcano just outside of Goma, DRC, was one of those times.For months I had been dreaming it, not…