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Our last day on the trip. I am sad to be leaving Africa although I know that Ray does not share my sentiments. I have enjoyed it all; the countryside, the people, the experiences, and the mental stimulation.
We said goodbye to all the students, both the young men and the older men in the Pastoral Centre and headed out onto the highway to Freetown in Aminah. We had a few pee stops along the way, but otherwise did a straight run through on a good highway into Freetown arriving around 2:15 p.m.
It was a hectic drive in, but thankfully being Sunday, the road was a littler quieter than during the week.
We are staying at the Hotobah Lodge on Boyle Road in Murray Town. It is small, built in 2009, very clean, with tile floors, and nicely decorated. The owner, Lorraine, runs a tight ship and most things work, most things are on time, and most things that she says happen. For example, hydro in Freetown is irregular. The Lodge has a generator and they guarantee electricity from 7 in the evenging until about 8 the next morning. There was also running water. The WiFi was unfortunely slow as molasses.
We got sorted and then took a wander down the road to the Internet - but once again it was so slow, I couldn't log on to anything. So, I fear it will be Mount Albert before I am able to upload these blog postings and my pictures. How the country runs I have no idea!
We showered and got ready for our final evening dinner which we had arranged to have on the balcony at the Lodge overlooking the ocean. It was a good meal with lots of memory recall about the trip. One guy, Simon, put together a film show of all the various escapades and it was fabulous and a great way to end it all. Ray went off to bed shortly after dinner, but I ended up going out with the gang to the bar next door, which they managed to get opened up for us. It was all locked up when we wandered into the courtyard to try it and someone appeared and said they would get the owner to bring the keys back, which happened. So there we were in what turned out to be another hotel, in its bar, having one more beer. Then a group of us wandered home around midnight and bed.
Our last day on the trip. I am sad to be leaving Africa although I know that Ray does not share my sentiments. I have enjoyed it all; the countryside, the people, the experiences, and the mental stimulation.
We said goodbye to all the students, both the young men and the older men in the Pastoral Centre and headed out onto the highway to Freetown in Aminah. We had a few pee stops along the way, but otherwise did a straight run through on a good highway into Freetown arriving around 2:15 p.m.
It was a hectic drive in, but thankfully being Sunday, the road was a littler quieter than during the week.
We are staying at the Hotobah Lodge on Boyle Road in Murray Town. It is small, built in 2009, very clean, with tile floors, and nicely decorated. The owner, Lorraine, runs a tight ship and most things work, most things are on time, and most things that she says happen. For example, hydro in Freetown is irregular. The Lodge has a generator and they guarantee electricity from 7 in the evenging until about 8 the next morning. There was also running water. The WiFi was unfortunely slow as molasses.
We got sorted and then took a wander down the road to the Internet - but once again it was so slow, I couldn't log on to anything. So, I fear it will be Mount Albert before I am able to upload these blog postings and my pictures. How the country runs I have no idea!
We showered and got ready for our final evening dinner which we had arranged to have on the balcony at the Lodge overlooking the ocean. It was a good meal with lots of memory recall about the trip. One guy, Simon, put together a film show of all the various escapades and it was fabulous and a great way to end it all. Ray went off to bed shortly after dinner, but I ended up going out with the gang to the bar next door, which they managed to get opened up for us. It was all locked up when we wandered into the courtyard to try it and someone appeared and said they would get the owner to bring the keys back, which happened. So there we were in what turned out to be another hotel, in its bar, having one more beer. Then a group of us wandered home around midnight and bed.
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