Peace Corp House in Solwezi
Village youth at my house
The village supermarket
The chief and his family
Big fish while on vacation

Post Parent Recovery

I left the folks yesterday morning- them to the airport and me back on a 10 hour bus to Solwezi. In all we drove 3000 km, gave them the celebrity tour of my village, survived swarming tsetse flies, caught massive catfish and ate plenty of good food. On arrival in the village the chief greeted my folks with a smoked / half-rotten duiker leg which we were to feast on for dinner. After boiling the leg for 2 hours with no improvement in the rank smell we were forced to seek an alternate option. They were also given a chicken which was a bit more palatable and we were able to make some good fajitas. We cycled down to the river 10km through tall grass to do some fishing only to find the river fully flooded. We ate a snack and cycled back through a downpour with dozens of kids chasing us the whole way. When the clay trail got wet it turned in to a very challenging cycle and I could just make out my parents heads disappear as they would slip out and wreck in the 10 ft. tall grass forest. I'm sure my villagers will be asking me why I took my parents out for a cycle in the rain and made them "suffer". --well for the experience of course

The safari lodge in Kafue park was very nice despite our initial fear of the tsetse flies and flooding downpour on our drive in. The water was a few feet deep in places and the tsetses were smarming by the hundreds. Both of the parents got out for a pee break and weren't able to sit still long enough to get anything accomplished (I knew better and remained inside the cab of the truck). Now back to Kanaya and improving my football skills and hopefully starting some fish farming.