I'm Back!

Greetings, Sojourners!
It's been over six months since my last post. My only excuse is that I was enjoying the most wonderful summer that we've had in Chicago in quite a few years. Then, at the end of the summer, on August 3rd, I was blessed to be present when my second grand daughter made her entrance onto this plane. I've been truly enjoying this little Golden Child. Check out her blog:   kalimaaorixa.blogspot.com  We also were blessed with a beautiful autumn in Chicago and I loved it.

And now it's winter again and my thoughts are turning to planning my next trip. I'm researching an extended African Sojourn. I want to visit every country in the Motherland. Going back to the Motherland, experiencing as much as I can in as many places as I can has been a dream of mine most of my life. The concept Sankofa, meaning “go back and retrieve what we’ve forgotten” is really at the root of why I want to take this Sojourn. Sankofa teaches that there is wisdom in learning from the past to build for the future.

I want to witness a game migration and Safari in Kenya; visit the Slave Factories in Senegal; work for a while in the camps in the Sudan; travel to Rwanda to see gorillas; and visit Robben Island where Mandela was imprisoned. So far I've traveled to Morocco, Egypt and Ghana. And of course, the main activity will be photographing my African Sojourn. I'm thinking 12-18 month, maybe more, so that I can spend as much time as I like in each location, experiencing cultures, meeting people and exploring cities and villages, all the while photographing my journey.

I imagine that traveling to a few countries, such as Somalia, the Congo, Cote D'voire and Libya, will be impossible, but I want to visit as many countries as I can and experience as much as I can in each.

I'm going to work on an itinerary and start saving. Do you have suggestions where I should start my journey?? Let me know; I'd love to hear your suggestions.
Soooo....here I go!

I'll keep you posted.