The Crew Outside the Temple

And here is a nice picture of the crew on the steps outside the Hindu temple (much more on this later) during our first day in Dar Es Salaam.  Look how bright-eyed and bushy-tailed they all look.  Within a week Africa had beaten the vast majority of them down and they trudged on to the plane a weary but enlightened lot. And look at how happy Wehmeyer is as he finally touched down in Africa.  Unlike the students, he could have stayed on.

In the end they were a great group who never complained (much) nor mutinied (at least openly).  I never once had to remonstrate them with "The dogs may bark: the caravan moves on!", although I did yell "yallah" a lot.