Archive for August 2025

May 2, 2003 Dear Family and Friends. I’m sitting in Anzie’s office at Peace Corps. It’s Friday afternoon. We just spent the morning at the Embassy Medical Dept. Anne will be an official “direct hire” as of Monday, so things are starting to happen. Our belongings are finally shipped. Airfreight should arrive next week. Sea…

September 2004 Locusts Greetings everyone Hope all’s well. Chuck’s arranging a Golf Tournament for Monday – Labor Day. It’s become a tradition to have a golf outing on each American holiday. We’re having it at the Meridien Golf Club — “The Pebble Beach of West Africa”. Yesterday the course was strewn with cadavers — of…

September 14, 2003 Chuck working at the Embassy Anzie flew in midnight Friday after a successful week in Niger. She’s resting up as I write. I just finished my first week on the job at the Embassy. As I am now your humble public servant, paid with your tax dollars, I thought you might be…

August 24, 2003 My work with Peace Corps Hi everyone. My voice has been pretty silent and I’ve been letting Chuck do all the writing. But I am home for a couple of weeks and now have the time to write. Many of you have asked what I do and how I spend my time.…

May 2003 Settling in and first Peace Corps Trip Hi everyone – now from me. As Chuck said things are going well and we are getting settled. I can’t wait until our airfreight arrives (600 pounds) – clothes, stereo, TV and kitchen stuff mainly. I did include a large box of wall hangings though, so…

May 12, 2003 Dakar and old friends Welcome to another page in the journal of an Innocent Abroad. Starting my third week in Dakar. Meeting all sorts of people, each with an amazing story to tell. Debbie Fredo stayed at our house most of last week. Debbie comes from my hometown – Elmira, NY –…

May 26, 2003 Senegal first impressions – The Other Side: The last time I wrote about all of the good parts of life in Senegal. I thought I might be coming across as a trifle Polyanna-ish. So, I thought I might give you a peek at the dark side, as much as I’ve seen in…

April 26, 2006 Chuck’s first impressions of Dakar Arrived safely at 5:30Am Tues. after a flight of only 6 ½ hours – wow. Had some problems with Snooty. Ran into an anti-cat policy on C&J Trailways and on Amtrak. Suggest the Pro – Feline Groups take up arms. South African Airways had no problem with…

April 4, 2003 Anne’s arrival Hello everyone, and greetings from Dakar. It is a beautiful warm day –perfect. I got here Saturday night after traveling for ages (including an 8 hours wait in Paris – but I couldn’t go into town since I had one of our cats with me). Everything is great. The house…