Kara, Togo Travel Blogs

Following the Gaddi shepherds [trek day 2]
Jul 15, 2007 (1 photos)

I managed to avoid the dreaded early-morning call of nature yesterday, but this morning I had to drag myself out of my cosy sleeping bag into the crisp dawn, and then find a suitable rock. There is no lack of those, though in future I might go earlier ...

Baptism, Preschool and French Lessons!
Sep 13, 2008

... ! Hannah (one of the fifth graders) was baptized! We all hiked to a beautiful waterfall about twenty minutes outside of Kara. The mountains were all around and were so beautiful! They were all so completely covered with different shades of green with ...

Cameras and Colds
Sep 29, 2008 (3 photos)

What a week!  I hope that this post finds you in wonderful health and contentment!  I hear that the weather has cooled off in the past few nights in GA!  The weather was pretty dry and hot this week...until Saturday night when it stormed all night and my ...

A fast week!
Aug 31, 2008 (6 photos)

... his luggage got sent to IRAN before it came to Ghana! He was able to get it before it was time for them to drive back to Togo on Saturday, so that's good! They got to the Miller's right at 8pm last night and after dinner Matt took him over to the school ...

Nearing A Break!
Oct 14, 2008

... thing to do to help me reevaluate my teaching and such and so it shall be done!   Our new students will come to Kara with the Millers and Reeves when they get back from Rwanda.  The Kennell's will arrive in Accra the day before the Millers and ...

Dr. Livingston I presume?
Jan 3, 2009

... 15 hours, sitting in the Amsterdam airport for 6 hours, spending the night in Ghana and driving for 12 hours....I am back in Kara!  The drive was not supposed to be that long...usually it is only 8 hours, but we lost...more obliterated...two belts on the ...

And the Rain Rain Rain came down down down...
Feb 20, 2009

... restaurant and our hotel was on the beach with AC in the rooms!!   The dad's and Daniel and Bennett held down the fort here in Kara while we were gone.  Matt Miller, Daniel and Bennett were nice enough to fill in for me at school.   We got back on Friday ...

shea butter, sign language and chambres de passage
Jul 11, 2009

... then the winners of each round contiune onto the final at the end of the month, which is televised nationally! So, in Kara... - I decided Togolese food is MILES better than (most) Burkinabe food, since they have discovered chili peppers! - I befriended a ...

Honey, There are no Piranhas in Africa...
Nov 24, 2008

... which...correct me if I'm wrong...is the point!  ;)   We are leaving on Wednesday morning to go to Lome (the capital of Togo) for Thanksgiving with some other missionaries.  We will be there until Saturday and then drive back up.  I hope you all are having a ...

Togo!
Aug 6, 2008

Hey everyone! Well, after an 11 hour drive with 11 people...we arrived in Togo on Monday night.  One of my bags got left in London, but arrived the next night.  Because of that, we had to stay in Ghana an extra day.  I am living with the ...

Moving on...
Mar 6, 2009

I have made my last move of my time in Togo!  I am now living at the Kennell's house (they are the family that moved here in November).   ...

One, Two, Three...BREAK!
Oct 21, 2008 (8 photos)

Hello to all and one!  I hope that you are having a splendid week!  Is the weather cool where you are?  I talked to a friend of mine in Colorado a few weeks ago and it was snowing there!  Needless to say...it is NOT snowing here, but ...

School Time!
Aug 17, 2008

... part and in the north (more north than we are thankfully).  many of the roads and bridges have washed out and right now Kara is without any vehicle fuel because the trucks cannot get up here because of the roads!  I hate it for the people, but ...

Cameras and care packages!
Sep 7, 2008 (10 photos)

... green and lush from all of the rain that we have been getting.  We left the car parked at a school about 15 minutes outside of Kara and about 10 miles from the Benin boarder.  We got out of the car to begin our hike and it started sprinkling, but we had ...

Bridges, Sickness and Basketball
Sep 20, 2008

... that there is now a good detour around one of the major bridges that had gotten washed out!  We have been getting fuel in to Kara on a regular basis for the past several days!  The team has been getting mail too!  Thank you all for the prayers about that!!  ...

Oh, a bit of everything really - The End is Nigh
Nov 19, 2007

... . I am recently arrived back (okay, when I wrote this I was, now it's a good few weeks ago) from a week in Kara, Togo, for our annual Spiritual Life Conference. Apart from getting me another map pin and some more passport stamps, it was also really ...

Over the River!
Aug 9, 2008 (3 photos)

... 7 a bridge collapsed and cut the optical cable that was for the cell phones and the wireless internet! We could still call in Kara, but only with land lines. You would be surprised how many people here have cell phones! There are several companies here ...

Hey hey! We made it through week three!
Aug 25, 2008 (5 photos)

... went to the Miller's for church that afternoon and then I went to the Emerson's for dinner!  Yum!  There is still no fuel in Kara, so they have to drive to Ghana to get fuel.    I think that I am moving back over to the Miller's on ...

Down the Straight and Narrow
Feb 5, 2009

... high, but you can walk up an outside stairway to sit on the roof and look out to the low mountain to the north, the outskirts of Kara to the west and the rest of Kara to the east and south.  As you walk through the door way into the guest house the ...

Moses and the German soldier?!
Jan 26, 2009 (4 photos)

... for them to buy a truck!  That is such a blessing for them!  Mark brought it up on Saturday. The Togo Christian ladies hosted a women's retreat this past weekend.  I think it was the first thing like this that the ladies have organized ...

Settled In
Oct 6, 2008 (11 photos)

... .  After everyone left she thought it was over, but....wahaha...   We "kidnapped" her and blindfolded her and took her to Hotel Kara for a surprise sleep over with Andrea (her mom), Becky and Hannah.  I went up there and we watched her new Barbie movie (So ...

Through rain and heat and dust...
Mar 21, 2009 (5 photos)

Happy spring to all!  I hope that you have all had a wonderful week!  I also hope that you are all cherishing the cool/cold weather that you might be having!  It has been a cool 96* here most of the week.  I have never seen such dry heat!  It's crazy!   I ...

Only Two To Go!?
Apr 11, 2009 (5 photos)

... showers that cool things down a little...and then it gets muggy...but it's cool for a while!    I will, Lord willing, be leaving Kara on April 28 and flying out of Accra, Ghana on April 30.  I should be in Atlanta late on the night of May 1 and ...

West-African MC Meeting...
Nov 11, 2004 (10 photos)

... megneztuk, hogy mindezek alapjan hol, hogyan tudnank szorosabban egyutt dolgozni... A resztvevo orszagok: Senegal, Elefantcsontpart, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon... 3 orszag egy az egyben frankofon orszag (Sen, Elef, Tog) viszont Cameroon is inkabb ...