Author Archives: Ray

This was a down day that allowed me to get a grip on the jet lag. I didn’t wake until 11am local time. The hotel accommodated me so that they provided coffee and a bit of breakfast even though I … Continue reading →

I flew out of JFK to Vienna on Austrian Air and then connected to the airport in Split, Croatia which is very close to Trojir. As short cab ride took me to the Villa Jidro Hotel which is a boutique … Continue reading →

I must press forward with my life. Travel for pleasure, to see exotic new places or to do humanitarian projects will have to be without Marie. She is unable to travel due to the fact that she is in the … Continue reading →

This blog has been on (off?) vacation for too long. For personal reason my traveling has been cut back dramatically since the Around-The-World trip. In December of 2013 I did go to Haiti with some donors to visit the Mercy … Continue reading →

For this trip, in order to travel Business Class, I used miles accumulated on a credit card. Somehow, in order to make it work, I got routed to Frankfurt, Germany. That meant taking South African Airways to Johannesburg, SA and … Continue reading →

We are finished with visiting projects so we are wrapping up the trip. In the morning we had a buffet breakfast at the Naf Blue View Hotel. We learned our lesson and let them know the night before when we … Continue reading →

In the morning we traveled to the village of Lindi to meet with the project manager of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). The AKF is a partner with TPP in southern Tanzania. We listened to a presentation about how AKF … Continue reading →

Milola Village is the site of a the Tanzanian Partner Project (TPP) in southern Tanzania. It is an impoverished village that is extremely rural. That means driving over dusty dirt roads for miles to get there. As with Niatola, it … Continue reading →

The day in Dar es Salaam was just a stopover. It did allow me to get some laundry done on an “express” basis which means it cost twice as much. At least I have clean clothes going forward. [Not so] … Continue reading →

It was not a very eventful day as it was mostly a matter of getting to the Kilimanjaro airport and taking a flight on [not so] Precision Air to Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. Precision Air is … Continue reading →