On Krempt, Turf and Sustainability

This visual essay gives you some idea of what the landscape is like around Debre Markos. A graduate school friend of mine, Jim E., once remarked about his tendency to suffer from “visual depression” which he said he experienced when

10 Reasons Choke Mountain Range won’t make it into the Lonely Planet Guide Book

Here are 10 reasons why this place will probably not make it into the next Lonely Planet Guide Book for Ethiopia and Eritrea. 1)  To get here, you have to go through Debre Markos, which is not in the Lonely

The good, the bad, and the…

The good: There are cranes in our area.  We can hear them in the countryside and we sometimes see them in groups, feeding in the wetlands.  This boy knew we loved animals, because we were really interested in the cranes…so

“Fudgies”, Fig Trees, and Tis Abay Falls

View from the road We went to Bahir Dar last weekend to pick up a package that was waiting patiently for us at the Peace Corps Office. The countryside was beautiful, and quite different from about a month ago when