a look at two 20% hardship posts
Manila is 20% hardship, Yaounde is 20% hardship. Having lived in both places, I think I know what the reality is between the two posts. Yes, people have to leave […]
Category Archives: Cameroon
2013 in numbers
Here are our families numbers (per family member) from 2013: 21,082.72 miles traveled by plane 7,500ish pounds of stuff we sent from Yaounde to Manila $5,000 worth of stuff sold before leaving Cameroon… […]
good bye cameroon
It’s been a long time… here are some pictures from our final days in Cameroon. Our last weekend there our friends threw us a farewell party. It also coincided with […]
Two Months
We are at the 8 week mark. 8 weeks from this morning we will no longer be living in Cameroon. I’m going back and forth on my feelings about this […]
this is what we’ve been up to for the past 4 months…
Lots of this: and this: and snuggling this little guy: and this: We went back to the states for almost four whole months to have little James Drake. We ate, […]
international women’s day
I just wrote a whole post on this and some how it was deleted. It was already the second time I wrote the post. So now I just have the […]
5 months…
We came back to Yaounde a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. We spent the holiday with some friends at the beach in Kribi. We spent a couple more weeks in Yaounde […]
Trip to the NW of Cameroon
I wrote this in August… for some reason I never posted it. Sorry… Last Friday (Aug. something that is…) our friends from the States arrived here in Yaounde. Later that […]
Vacations in Africa
This is Patrick sitting in for Kim with today’s blog post. She’s asked me to tell you about our weekend at the beach. I think an illustrative story would be […]
kribi, cameroon
Friday morning we met up with 4 other families and hit the road for a weekend away. The drive out of town was long. Traffic was heavy and people where […]
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