Lorelle's First Post

Thanks for coming to this site!!! And being interested in the travels of three women in Africa. Where we are right now – Val is in Johannesburg, South Africa and she has found a vehicle – Thank You, God!!!!! She seems pleased with it and says it will do well for us. A terrific answer to prayer.

Lori is in Lebanon where there is hay to be moved and much going on – I’ll let her say her bit.

I just returned to Seattle from a Wonderful half a week in Oregon where I’ve been blessed by many terrific people. I’m in my office working away on my tenure file and all the details that need to be done before leaving my house at 10 am on Saturday morning. I’ll arrive Jo-burg at 9 pm Sunday night and Lori will arrive 5 pm Monday. Then we’ll repack our bags and hopefully head out on Wednesday, July 12.

Our planned route – from Johannesburg – East to Kruger Nat’l Park for one night – then down through Swaziland the next day (maybe a corner of Mozambique?). Along the coast for a bit then back up into the mountains of Lesotho, back down for a bit of the coast before arriving in Cape Town. Then we’ll head North through Namibia and half way up, we’ll cut East through Botswana and then into Zambia. Looking forward to seeing Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. We’ll go East through Zambia and into Malawi where we hope to see some of the incredible and colorful creatures of Lake Malawi, then North into Tanzania and East again to Dar es Salaam. Then we’ll head North along the coast, back West through the Serengetti and up into Kenya. A few more days and then we’ll rest in Soroti, Uganda before going up to Kangole in Karamoja. Whew! We think it is about 7,700 miles from Johannesburg to Soroti.

Please pray for our safety along the way as well as wisdom in our choices and decisions.

I need to get back to writing my tenure essays . . . . only 24 hours before turning in my file!!!

More soon,

Lorelle