Road trip

We made it!!! It is good to be settled in to our home away from home, listening to the familiar sounds of the frogs in the swamp and the myrid insects making their night calls. We unpacked, went over to Hueb and Maragrits (a surgeon from Holland) for supper, then back to our house. I boiled some water for a hot shower while Sandy and Sara proved their toughness and took a cold one - straight out of the well! Whatever.....! Last night we spent the night at some missionaries homes in a little village outside of Faranah after a ten hour drive, and then another ten hour drive today landed us at N'zao around 5:30. The roads have deteriorated even more than last time with several places that we needed 4 wheel drive to get through the mud bogs and the rest of the trip needing to wear neck braces from hitting our heads on the ceiling. The political situation here is very tense with elections for a new president scheduled for this coming Sunday. There is a significant possibility of unrest since the two largest tribes in the country are basically running a candidate against each other. We are glad to be here if anything breaks out and praying that nothing too major happens.