Travels in Africa

Dave DeSelm, a retired architect now living in Santa Barbara, CA, relates what can happen to Peace Corps volunteers when they are just sitting on a rock. One day, I was just sitting on a rock, sketching the interior ramparts of the old fortress, when I heard the chatter of school children. I looked up […]

Sometimes, unexpectedly, a country calls you.  Tunisia called us.  We – Fred and Donanne Hunter – had never been there.  We felt we must go.  Here in the second of our two-part report we leave Tunis to see some of the country. Leaving Tunis behind, we drove south with wheat fields stretching all around.  We […]

Sometimes, unexpectedly, a country calls you.  Tunisia called us.  We – Fred and Donanne Hunter – had never been there.  We felt we must go.  Here’s the first of our two-part report: Even though I’d been warned that there was “nothing to see there,” I just had to visit the ruins of Carthage, the civilization […]