• Everest Base Camp #1 & #2
• Inca Trail 2018
• Women's Projects in Tanzania 2018
• Bhutan 2017
• Women's House Building 2017
• Antarctic Adventure
• Greenland by Day Hike
• Fire and Ice: Iceland
• Family Fire & Ice: Iceland
• Mongolia on Horseback
• Raising Voices, Raising Roofs
• New Zealand Adventure
• Inca Trail 2015
• Ethiopia Explorer 2015
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2015
• Patagonia & Wine
• Everest Base Camp 2014
• Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon 2014
• The Way: A Pilgrimage Across Spain
• Belize Dive & Jungle Exploration
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2014
• Everest Base Camp 2013
• Turkey: Mt. Ararat
• Inca Trail II 2013
• Inca Trail I 2013
• 2013 Kilimanjaro Cancer Climb
• Spanish Immersion with Mayan Tropics & Honduran Island Paradise
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2012
• Nicaragua Volunteer Adventure 2012
• In the Footsteps of Buddha 2011
• Iceland & Greenland 2011
• 2011 Kilimanjaro Climb for Cancer
• Everest Base Camp 2010
• Bhutan Sept. 26, 2010
• Galapagos 2010

Viewing Post for: Women's House Building 2017

Date: Friday, March 3
Location: Still at Lake Eyasi.

Working at the building site and with the girls at the vocational school This experience is to build houses but it is about people. We interviewed the two woman who were getting the houses. Christina began crying as soon as she started to speak (in her mother tongue) For both women, they had thought they would spend the rest of their lives when it rained watching the kids get wet,  & cry. Stick sheds are not secure so they can have no belongings of much importance. Amazingly, Christina whose house was sticks, saw a woman wondering in the village with her kids, from place to place, tree to tree and despite her lack of assets, gave part of her land to Marietta to have a place to build a house. We are getting Christina medically checked. It appears a year ago she developed a scalp itch that turned into an infection which is still there. Her lymph nodes are huge. Although this all sounds depressing, that is not how we spend our days. We spend them cutting vegetables, walking hand in hand, sharing the cooking, and the building. We learn a few more words each day so now we can joke. Our new friends laugh easily, they share with us what they have, literally often reaching out to us. Mary who is with us is so moved by a Mary she met here, she is looking into sponsoring here so she can attend secondary school. Our young Mary is very smart. Already a leader. We are humbled by how we have been received so openly. Our interview will be posted as part of a video after we get home about this incredibly humbling opportunity. If you would like more information on this project, look it up on www.journeysofsolutions.org. This is our nonprofit where we raise all the funds for this project. Look under current projects. Even now, we are planning to be in Tanzania each year going forward.

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