Enjoy some pictures!
Here is Karen and I flying to Congo!
Here are the motorcyles (aka "moto" or "motorbike") we ride a lot.
This is a crested crane, national animal/symbol of Uganda
This is a very cool Bird of Paradise/Banana Family tree.
This is some countryside on the island of Idjwi. Lots of Eastern DRC looks like this.
This is Mark on a boat on Lake Kivu. As you can see, there are mountains eveywhere.
Close-ish-up of some of the mountains on Lake Kivu. Mark thinks those white spots are waterfalls.
Mark went to the barber the other day, who made his facial hair look like a somewhat respectable beard! Karen has been swooning ever since.*
*Bonus material: this picture was taken in our backyard. Our colleague lives in the place with the solar panel on it. Mark wants to cut down some of the bamboo and make a dock to sit on the water.
It is so crazy how much the environment there is similar to Hawaii - the bird of paradise trees (and banana trees) are all over the place, and waterfalls in the mountains were almost a daily site for me. It is so fun to see those types of things again and realize that kind of beauty is all around the world, not just in the places that have been super commercialized.
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