It was nearly four years ago when we started liv­ing in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa.

This tree­house was in our back­yard. Our neigh­bor, Roger Van Otter­loo, built this with and for his son. He was a real mis­sion­ary, in the tra­di­tional sense. He and his fam­ily built a life for them­selves in the heart of the jun­gle, so to speak — in the heart of Africa — Zaire (now Congo again). They left for the big city of Nairobi when civil war broke out — when they had to leave.

You would never know from the photo that we were about two miles from the city cen­ter. The tree, by the way, is an aca­cia — the quin­tes­sen­tial African tree.

If you want to read more about our life in Africa, kindly visit My Part of Nairobi.

My very first blog, My Part of Nairobi, was my chron­i­cle of life in that great city. We lived there from 2005–2007.

It still gets almost as many hits as my cur­rent blog, even though I haven’t updated it since we left. I guess peo­ple find that life more inter­est­ing than this.

Any­how, one of my favorite blogs is Africa Expat Wives Club. The author has an irrever­ant yet respect­ful look at life there. She and her fam­ily have cho­sen to stay, unlike us. So her blog chron­i­cles life there — many of the strug­gles and joys of an expat liv­ing in Kenya.

So I was check­ing my Google Ana­lyt­ics stats for that blog and noticed that I had received about 140 hits from her link to me, just in the last month. Pretty fun!